Roles
Sentencing
Consequences
Consequences & Others
Court Terms
100
Someone who is being accused of a crime in a court of law.
What is a defendant?
100
Being not guilty of a crime or offense.
What is being innocent?
100
A place where criminals go to serve their sentence.
What is jail?
100
A minor crime.
What is a misdemeanor?
100
A formal written or spoken statement, especially in a court of law.
What is a testimony?
200
The person bringing the case to the courts attention.
What is a plaintiff?
200
A decision on a disputed issue in a civil or criminal case.
What is a verdict?
200
Declaring someone guilty of a crime by the jury or the judge's orders.
What is being convicted?
200
To think or plan a crime ahead of time.
What is premeditating?
200
An examination of evidence by a judge, before a jury, to decide guilt in criminal or civil proceedings.
What is a trial?
300
An official who keeps the courtroom safe.
What is a bailiff?
300
The unlawful killing of another human being with malice afterthought.
What is murder in the first degree?
300
A crime that is usually involved with violence and is punishable by imprisonment for a year or even death.
What is a felony?
300
A building to which people are legally committed as a punishment for crimes they've committed or awaiting trial.
What is a prison?
300
A proceeding, after a criminal complaint has been filed by the prosecutor, to determine whether or not there is enough evidence to go to trial.
What is a preliminary hearing?
400
A person selected by the jury to read to help process the trial and read the verdict.
What is a jury foreman?
400
The crime of killing another human being without malice afterthought.
What is manslaughter?
400
The temporary release of a prisoner or permanently before the completion of a sentence.
What is parole?
400
A formal charge of a serious crime.
What is indictment?
400
When someone is freed from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty.
What is being acquitted?
500
The conducting of legal proceedings against someone in respect of a criminal charge.
What is prosecution?
500
A punishment fixed by law for an offense.
What is a sentence?
500
The release of an offender from detention, subject to a period of good behavior under supervision.
What is probation?
500
Questioning closely, sometimes of a witness already accused by the opposing side.
What is cross-examining?
500
A document calling someone to court to answer an indictment.
What is an arraignment?
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