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Subject : law
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1. A form of executive clemency preventing criminal prosecution or removing or extinguishing a criminal conviction.






2. The final decision of the court - resolving the dispute; an opinion; an award of damages.






3. A special type of guilty plea by which a defendant does not admit guilt but concedes that the State hasufficient evidence to convict; normally made to avoid the threat of greater punishment. Source: Black's Law Dictionary(1996); North Carolina v. Alf






4. An order requiring a person to appear in court and present reasons why a certain order - judgment - or decree should not be issued.






5. Evidence given to explain - counteract - or disprove facts given by the opposing counsel.






6. A legal inquiry to discover and collect facts concerning a certain matter.






7. One who saw the act - fact - or transaction to which he or she testifies.






8. Allowance ordered to be paid by one spouse to the other for support while the spouses are living apart but not divorced.






9. To give authority or legal authenticity to a statute - record - or other written instrument.






10. Inclination - bent - a pre-conceived opinion or a predisposition to decide a cause or an issue a certain way.






11. An honest belief - the absence of malice - and the absence of design to defraud.






12. Lie detector test and the apparatus for conducting the test.






13. A rule of law that courts and judges shall draw a particular inference from a particular fact - or from particular evidence.






14. A lawyer elected to represent the state in criminal cases in his or her respective juicial circuit. See PROSECUTOR.

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15. With knowledge - willfully or intentionally with respect to a material element of an offense.






16. To terminate legal action involving outstanding charges against a defendant in a criminal case.






17. Two or more sentences of jail time to be served in sequence.






18. Test to determine content of alcohol in one arrested for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor by analyzing a breath sample.






19. The act of not following an order that is directed by the court.






20. The person who sets up a trust.






21. Evidence which can disappear relatively quickly - such as the amount of alcohol in a person's blood.






22. The judge's instructions to the jury concerning the law that applies to the facts of the case on trial.






23. Pimping. Arranging for acts of prostitution.






24. A temporary location that is meant to secure the accused while waiting for trial to begin or continue.






25. All the judges of a court sitting together. Appellate courts can consist of a dozen or more judges - but often they hear cases in panels of three judges. If a case is heard or reheard by the full court - it is heard en banc.






26. The voluntary transfer - by a debtor - of all property to a trustee for thebenefit of all of his or her creditors.






27. The act of bringing to an end; termination. The dissolution of a marriage or other relationship.






28. An obligation signed by the accused to secure his or her presence at the trial. This obligation means that the accused may lose money by not properly appearing for the trial. Often referred to simply as bond.






29. The process whereby the accused and the prosecutor in a criminal case work out a mutually satisfactory disposition of the case subject to court approval. Usually involves the defendant's pleading guilty to a lesser offense or to only one.






30. A lesser offense than a felony and generally punishable by fine or limited jail time - but not in a penitentiary.






31. The unlawful restraint by one person of another person's physical liberty.






32. Release of a person from custody without the payment of any bail or posting of bond - upon the promise to return to court.

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33. A sentence imposed for the commission of a crime whereby a convicted criminal offender is released into the community - usually under conditions and under the supervision of a probation officer - instead of incarceration.






34. Willful destruction of property - from actual ill will or resentment toward its owner or possessor.






35. The trial method used in the U.S. and some other countries. This system is based on the belief that truth can best be determined by giving opposing parties full opportunity to present and establish their evidence - and totest by crossexamination the






36. The reduction of a sentence - such as from death to life imprisonment.






37. The CFR is the annual listing of executive agency regulations published in the daily Federal Register - and the regulations issued previously which are still in effect. The CFR contains regulatory laws governing practice and procedure before federal






38. Strict legal rights of the parties; a decision 'on the merits' is one that reaches the right(s) of a party - as distinguished from disposition of a case on a ground not reaching the right(s) raised in an action;






39. An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.






40. A parent's or custodian's act of leaving a child without adequate care - supervision - support - or parental






41. The right of an accused to a speedy trial as guaranteed by the 6th Amendment of the United States Constitution.






42. A sentence postponed in which the defendant is not required to serve time unless he or she commits another crime or violates a court-imposed condition.






43. An offer of proof as to what the evidence would be if a witness were called to testify or answer a question.






44. A procedural error during a trial or hearing sufficiently harmful to justify reversing the judgment of a lower court.






45. Written or oral pledge by a witness to speak the truth.






46. An inference of the truth or falsity of a proposition or fact - that stands until rebutted by evidence to the contrary.






47. A federal or state public building or other place for the confinement of persons. It is used as either a punishment imposed by the law or otherwise in the course of the administration of justice






48. A trust set up and in effect during the lifetime of the grantor. Also called inter vivos trust.






49. A legal right - exemption or immunity granted to a person - company or class - that is beyond the common advantages of other citizens.






50. The act of inhaling glue in order 'to get high'.