Law
What is the highest law in the United States?
What is the Constitution?
What type of crime is punishable by less than one year in jail?
What is a misdemeanor?
What is the person accused of a crime called?
What is the defendant?
What defense claims the accused was somewhere else during the crime?
What is an alibi?
What is the most common punishment for minor crimes?
What is a fine?
What is the name for written laws passed by legislatures?
What are statutes?
What is a serious crime like murder or robbery called?
What is a felony?
What is the government's lawyer called in a criminal case?
What is the prosecutor?
What defense is used when someone is forced to commit a crime?
What is duress?
What is the term for being placed under government supervision?
What is probation?
What branch of government interprets laws?
What is the judicial branch?
What type of crime involves lying under oath?
What is perjury?
What term describes intent to commit a crime?
What is mens rea?
What defense is used when the accused was trying to protect themselves?
What is self-defense?
What is the punishment where the offender is held in jail?
What is incarceration?
What do we call a law that makes an act illegal after it was committed?
What is an ex post facto law?
What do we call crimes committed using computers or the internet?
What are cybercrimes?
What term means "guilty act"?
What is actus reus?
What defense is based on lack of mental capacity?
What is insanity?
What is it called when a convict is released early under conditions?
What is parole?
What legal principle means "let the decision stand"?
What is stare decisis?
What type of crime is committed by a person of respectability in business?
What is white-collar crime?
What is a legal document charging someone with a crime?
What is an indictment?
What defense argues the accused was trapped or lured by police?
What is entrapment?
What is the most severe punishment in the criminal justice system?
What is the death penalty?