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Charged With
How Do You Plea?
Processing
Order In The Court
After Math
100
Misdemeanor
What is a minor wrongdoing?
100
Innocent
What is being found not guilty of a crime or offense?
100
Arraignment
What is to bring someone before the court to answer a criminal charge?
100
Bailiff
What is a person who performs certain actions under legal authority?
100
Preliminary Hearing
What is a proceeding, after a criminal complaint has been filed by the prosecutor, to determine whether there is enough evidence to require a trial?
200
Felony
What is a crime that is more serious than a misdemeanor?
200
Not Guilty
What is being found innocent, esp. of a formal charge?
200
Testimony
What is a formal written or spoken statement?
200
Defendant
What is an individual, company, or institution being sued or accused in a court of law?
200
Prison
What is a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial?
300
Premeditated
What is a conviction one thinks out or plans beforehand?
300
Indictment
What is a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime?
300
Appeal
What is to make a serious or urgent request, typically to the public?
300
Plaintiff
What is a person who brings a case against another in a court of law?
300
Probation
What is the release of an offender from detention, subject to a period of good behavior under supervision?
400
Manslaughter
What is the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or otherwise in circumstances not amounting to murder?
400
Acquitted
What is being freed from a criminal charge?
400
Trial
What is a formal examination of evidence before a judge and typically before a jury?
400
Jury Foreman
What is similar to a jury?
400
Parole
What is the release of a prisoner temporarily or permanently?
500
Murder in the First Degree
What is a killing that is deliberate and premeditated, involving multiple deaths or the killing of certain types of people?
500
Convicted
What is To declare someone guilty of a criminal defense?
500
Prosecution
What is the conducting of legal proceedings against someone in respect of a criminal charge?
500
Sentence
What is the punishment assigned to a defendant found guilty by a court?
500
Jail
What is a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime?