Defenses & Alibis
This term is Latin for "elsewhere" and is the defense used when you have proof you were at a movie during the time of a robbery.
What is an Alibi?
This 4th Amendment concept requires a "reasonable belief" that a specific person committed a crime before an arrest can be made.
What is Probable Cause?
This is the formal "paperwork" phase where name, address, and fingerprints are collected at the police station.
What is Booking?
This phrase describes the court acting as a "substitute parent" to protect the best interests of a child.
What is Parens Patriae?
The Office was set at the Scranton branch of this paper company.
What is Dunder Mifflin?
This defense applies if you committed a crime only because someone held a gun to your head and forced you to do it.
What is Duress?
This is a court order, obtained by filing a complaint to a judge, that commands a person be taken into custody.
What is an Arrest Warrant?
This is a formal request made by a lawyer asking the court to take action, such as "suppressing" (hiding) illegal evidence.
What is a Pretrial Motion?
This is the juvenile equivalent of "Parole," involving supervision after a minor is released from a facility.
What is Aftercare?
It was this year that all 4 number 1 seeds made it to the Final 4 in March Madness for the first, and only, time in history.
What is 2008?
This is the defense used if a person reacts to an unavoidable physical situation, like breaking into a cabin to survive a deadly blizzard.
What is Necessity?
This term refers to the questioning of a suspect by police after an arrest, which often aims to get a confession
What is the Interrogation?
This is the process of negotiation between the accused and the prosecutor to trade a guilty plea for a lesser charge or sentence.
What is Plea Bargaining?
Skipping school (truancy) or running away from home are examples of this category of offense.
What is a Status Offense?
Penny Hardaway, the current head coach of this team, led the Memphis Tigers to the Elite 8 in 1990 as a player.
Who are the Memphis Tigers?
While you can use "reasonable force" to protect yourself, this specific type of law in some states says you don't have to retreat before using force.
What are Stand Your Ground laws?
While the 4th Amendment protects privacy, it does not prohibit all searches—only those that the court deems to be this.
What is Unreasonable?
This group of citizens meets in secret to decide if there is enough evidence to officially charge a person with a felony.
What is a Grand Jury?
This is the process of sealing or destroying a juvenile's criminal record so it doesn't follow them into adulthood
What is being Expunged?
This team, led by former Louisville coach Rick Pitino, has the mascot of Red Storm
What is St. Johns University?
To prove this specific defense, you must show that you would not have committed the crime if the police hadn't persuaded you.
What is Entrapment?
According to the 5th Amendment, a suspect has this specific right, which means they cannot be forced to testify against themselves
What is the Right Against Self-Incrimination?
This is the money or property put up by the accused to allow their release from jail before trial, ensuring they will return to court.
What is Bail?
The first-ever juvenile court was established in 1899 in this specific U.S. county.
What is Cook County (Illinois)?
The name of this salsa means "beak of the rooster."
What is Pico de Gallo?