A person who testifies under oath in a trial with evidence
What is a witness?
100
a chair at the end of the judge's bench on the jury box side, usually with a low "modesty screen," where a witness sits and gives testimony after he or she has sworn to tell the truth
What is the witness stand?
100
Questioning a witness already questioned by the opposing side
What is cross-examination?
100
the number of people that typically serve on a jury
What is 12?
100
found guilty of a crime at the end of a trial
What is convicted?
200
A group of people who are selected and sworn in to hear a trial and to reach a verdict based on the evidence presented to them
What is the jury?
200
An enclosure where the jury sit in court
What is the jury box?
200
A lawyer's protest about the legal appropriateness of a question posed to a witness by the opposing lawyer
What is an objection?
200
a solemn promise to perform an act truthfully and faithfully
What is an oath?
200
To provide evidence as a witness
What is testify?
300
person who has been accused of a crime and is on trial
What is the defendant?
300
a small hammer used by a judge to signal for attention or order
What is a gavel?
300
an attorney or lawyer (in a trial, there is _________ for both the defense and the prosecution)
What is counsel?
300
The jury's formal discussion and debate over what the verdict of a trial will be
What are deliberations?
300
Of no importance or relevance to the matter at hand; used by attorneys as a reason for objecting to an opposing attorney's question
What is immaterial or irrelevant?
400
person who makes a word-for-word record and transcription of court proceedings
What is the court reporter?
400
The large, unusually long and wide desk raised above the level of the rest of the courtroom at which the judge sits
What is the bench
400
Evidence that indirectly proves something
What is circumstantial evidence?
400
part of the instructions given to a jury--they must only find a defendant guilty if they are sure there is no other logical explanation for the crime
What is "beyond all reasonable doubt"?
400
A judge's decision to ignore a lawyer's objection and allow the questioning to continue
What is overruled?
500
A public officer who presides over and administers the law in a courtroom; he or she controls the proceedings in the courtroom and decides on questions of law or discretion
What is the judge?
500
A judge's private room or office wherein he or she hears motions, signs papers, and performs other tasks pertaining to his or her office when a session of the court, such as a trial, is not being held
What is the judge's chambers?
500
A direct address each lawyer gives to the judge or jury at the end of a trial, summarizing his or case and attempting to weaken the other side's case
What is a closing argument?
500
A trial without a jury, in which the judge serves as the fact-finder
What is a bench trial?
500
behavior that disobeys or disrespects the laws, regulation, or authority of the court; it is an actual crime for which the offender is punished