Across
- 2. Jury cannot make up their minds.
- 3. A crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death
- 7. judgment.
- 8. A lawyer who conducts the case against a defendant in a criminal court. Also called prosecuting attorney
- 9. An individual, company, or institution sued or accused in a court of law
- 11. the finding or answer of a jury given to the court concerning a matter submitted to
- 13. a reckless attack with intent to injure seriously (as with a deadly weapon)
- 14. A judgment that a person is not guilty of the crime with which the person has been charged
- 15. The prosecution of a person twice for the same offense
- 18. An order to appear before a judge or magistrate, or the writ containing it
- 20. Fully in agreement
- 21. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
Down
- 1. You can’t be forced to testify against yourself.
- 4. A person, esp. a man, who presides over a jury and speaks on its behalf
- 5. The miranda warning (also referred to as Miranda rights), is a warning that is required to be given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial situation) before they are interrogated to inform them about their constitutional rights.
- 6. Both lawyers ask questions to the other witnesses.
- 10. Thinking about killing someone before you kill them.
- 12. A judge's order that a case may not be discussed in public
- 16. the duty of proving a disputed charge
- 17. evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest or search and seizure; "a magistrate determined that there was probable cause to search the house"
- 18. A writ ordering a person to attend a court
- 19. The offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation