Your Honor
A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
What is a trial?
A member of a jury
What is a juror?
The crime of someone which (mostly) has violence.
What is a felony?
This means a person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place.
What is a witness?
The process of giving sworn evidence.
What is a deposition?
The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
The punishment ordered by a court for a defendant convicted of a crime.
What is a sentence?
This means a trial rendered invalid through an error in the proceedings.
What is a mistrial?
To tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
What is an Oath?
To charge someone with a crime.
What is to prosecute?
Reject decision of argument.
What is overruled?
Murder act that is committed and is led to a death even thought had no intention of killing someone.
What is third degree murder?
All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
What is circumstantial evidence?
Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
What is a testimony?
In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
What is a plea?
The judge agrees with the objection and disallows the question, testimony or evidence.
What is sustained?
An unplanned intentional killing, a death caused by a reckless disregard for human life.
What is second degree murder?
A claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong ,typically one made without proof.
What is an allegation?
A statement written by the oath or affirmation
What is an affidavit?
Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other
What is evidence?
Information received from other people that one cannot adequately substantiate; rumor.
What is hearsay?
When the person was intending to harm or kill the victim with no regard for the human life. Possible sentence either death penalty or life in prison.
What is first degree murder?
A formal declaration that someone is guilty of a criminal offense made by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law.
What is a conviction?
Means a witness called by the other party
What is to cross examine?
A writ issued by a government agency, most often a court, to compel testimony by a witness or production of evidence under a penalty for failure
What is a subpoena?