Across
- 3. a sworn statement
- 5. an article of furniture having a broad, level writing surface
- 7. a written document that establishes fundamental rights and principles by which a nation governs itself
- 9. governing document of a home rule city
- 11. opportunity to be heard
- 15. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony
- 16. to keep evidence from being presented during a trial
- 18. any written or positive rule prescribed under the authority of the state or nation
- 19. one who bonds and obligates him/herself to guarantee the appearance of the defendant in court at times ordered to answer the charges
Down
- 1. Latin term meaning "to come."
- 2. a writ ordering an officer to take a person into custody
- 4. a person appointed to decide matter at issue
- 5. a determination by a court of the rights and duties of the parties before it
- 6. a wire stitching machine
- 8. whose job it is to set bail
- 9. a person who keeps the records and performs the routine business of a court
- 10. approves charges and dictates language in charging instrument
- 12. a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined
- 13. the penalty assessed by a judge or a jury upon conviction
- 14. the process by which a judge is disqualified from hearing a charge filed in his or her court
- 17. a place where justice is administered