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Law
9th Grade
01/14/2014

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1. Adjudicatory Hearing
Definition
The procedure used to determine the facts in a juvenile case.
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2. Aggravating Circumstances
Definition
: Factors that tend to increase the seriousness of an offense.
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3. Arraignment:
Definition
A hearing in which a suspect is charged and pleads guilty or not guilty.
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4. Booking
Definition
The formal process of making a police record of an arrest.
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5. Capital Punishment
Definition
The death penalty putting a convicted person to death as punishment for a crime.
Term
6. Corroborate
Definition
Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.
Term
7. Custodial Interrogation
Definition
Questioning a person after he/she has been taken into custody.
Term
8. Delinquent Offenders
Definition
Are youths who have committed acts that would be crimes if committed by adult under federal, state, or local laws.
Term
9. Disposition
Definition
The final sentence or result of a case.
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10. DNA Evidence
Definition
Biological evidence used to connect an offender conclusively to a crime.
Term
11. Duress:
Definition
: Force or threats to make someone do something.
Term
12. Insanity Defense
Definition
A legal defense based on claims of mental illness or mental incapacity.
Term
13. Intoxication
Definition
Physical and mental changes produced by drinking alcohol or drugs.
Term
14. Judicial Integrity
Definition
: As used in discussing search and seizure this is an argument for the use of the exclusionary rule, which emphasizes that courts should not permit law breaking by the police.
Term
15. Mitigating Circumstances
Definition
Factors that tend to lesson the seriousness of an offense.
Term
16. Motion for a change of venue
Definition
A request to change the location of a trail to avoid community hostility for the convenience of a witness or for other reasons.
Term
17. Motion for a continuance
Definition
A request to postpone a lawsuit to gain more time to prepare the case.
Term
18. Motion for discovery of evidence
Definition
A request by the defendant to examine before trail certain evidence possessed by the prosecution.
Term
19. Motion to suppress evidence
Definition
A motion filed by a criminal defense attorney asking the court to exclude any evidence that was illegally obtained from the attorney client.
Term
20. Preliminary Hearing
Definition
Property or belongings that can be moved such as cars clothing furniture and appliances.
Term
21. Reentry:
Definition
A program created by the US belt of justice designed to reduce serious crime committed by ex-offenders
Term
22. Self-Incrimination
Definition
Giving evidence and answering questions that would tend to subject one to criminal prosecution.
Term
23. Status Offenders
Definition
An illegal act that can only be committed by a juvenile.
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