Judicial Vocabulary
To be legally responsible, as in a Civil trial.
What is liable?
A legal document requiring a person to report for jury duty.
What is a summons?
Intentionally putting another person in reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact
What is assault?
spell the following word; a group of people who hear evidence and decide innocence or guilt of an accused person.
What is J - U - R - Y
To allow a convict the opportunity serve the rest of their prison sentence outside of prison.
What is parole?
To purposely and willfully lie under oath, in court or during a deposition.
What is Perjury?
In court, the person being accused of violating the law.
Who is the defendant.
An idea that God would save an innocent person and protect them from harm.
What is Trial by Ordeal?
entry into a building illegally with intent to commit a crime, especially theft
What is Burglary?
Spell the following word; the right of a court to hear a case.
What is J - U - R - I - S - D - I - C - T - I - O - N
The 2 different terms used to refer to a person trained and certified to practice law in a particular state.
What is a lawyer or counsel?
A crime in which a person physically contacts another person in a malicious or harmful manner either with a body part or a weapon.
What is battery?
The court record and / or court schedule.
What is a docket?
To isolate a jury to keep them from being influenced by outside sources.
What is sequester?
To steal money that was entrusted to your care.
What is embezzlement?
Spell the following term;
The accuser in a civil trial.
What is P - L - A - I - N - T - I - F - F
A group of people who examine evidence to determine if there is enough evidence to put a person on trial.
What is a Grand Jury.
Laws made by elected officials.
What is a statute?
legal document requiring a person to testify in court.
What is a subpoena?
This was an early form of a jury, a 'witness' jury.
What are Assizes?
To purposely break a law that you feel is immoral, in a non-violent way, to draw attention to the law.
What is civil disobedience?
Bonus: What is the most famous example of civil disobedience in U.S. History?
Spell the following word;
to formally accuse a person of a crime.
What is I - N - D - I - C - T - M - E - N - T
Overriding idea of the U.S. justice system that lays the burden of proof on the Government / Prosecution.
What is the Presumption of Innocence?
A person of integrity appointed by state government —typically by the secretary of state — to serve the public as an impartial witness in performing a variety of official fraud-deterrent acts related to the signing of important documents.
What is a Notary Public?
a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
What is an injunction?
In a water trial, where a person is thrown into the water to determine innocence or guilt, a guilty person _________...
What is floats?
the process of taking legal action.
litigation
Spell the following word;
to dismiss a potential juror without having to give a reason.
What is P - E - R - E - M - P - T - 0 - R - Y C - H - A - L - L - E - N - G - E
Initial court appearance and the 3 possible pleas of the accused.
What is Arraignment? and
Not Guilty,
Guilty and
No Contest
The clause in the Constitution that protects OJ from ever being convicted of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
What is Double Jeopardy?