Unit 3 Judicial System Vocab

Question 1

Acquttial

Answer 1

Found not guilty

Question 2

Adjudicate

Answer 2

To judge

Question 3

Appeal

Answer 3

To ask a higher quart to look at lower quart decisions

Question 4

Arraignment

Answer 4

You’re plea is heard

Question 5

Bail

Answer 5

A temporary Release before you’re sentence

Question 6

Conviction

Answer 6

The result of criminal trial in which a person is found guilty

Question 7

Cross examination

Answer 7

The questioning of a witness by the lawyer for the opposite side

Question 8

Direct examination

Answer 8

The first questioning on a trial of a witness by the lawyer who called that witness

Question 9

Docket

Answer 9

A written list of all important acts done in quart /regardless to a individual case from beginning to end

Question 10

Ex parte

Answer 10

By or for or on the request of 1 party only without notice of any other party

Question 11

Hearing

Answer 11

A court proceeding before or after the trial of a law suit

Question 12

Indictment

Answer 12

An accusation of a crime made against a person by the prosecutor

Question 13

Judgment

Answer 13

The decision of a court of law

Question 14

Mistrial

Answer 14

A trial that becomes invalid is essentially canceled because of a mistake in procedure

Question 15

Motion

Answer 15

How a lawyer ask a judge to make a decision

Question 16

Oath

Answer 16

A deceleration of a statement truth which renders one willfully asserting an untrue statement punishable for perjury

Question 17

Overruled

Answer 17

The judge following and objection resides the questions may continue

Question 18

Parole

Answer 18

Conditional real ease from prison before the end of the sentence

Question 19

Perjury

Answer 19

A deliberate lie said under oath

Question 20

Plaintiff vs defendant

Answer 20

This is the way a case is always set up in writing the name of the person or organization filling a lawsuit goes first the name of the president or the organization being charged goes last the “v” is a abbreviation for the word versus

Question 21

Proceeding

Answer 21

Any hearing or court appearance replayed to the adjudication of a case

Question 22

Remand

Answer 22

To send a case back to the court from which it came for further processing

Question 23

Reverse

Answer 23

To set aside a judgment on appealer or proceedings in error

Question 24

Sustained

Answer 24

The judge following an objection agrees that the line of questioning should not continue

Question 25

Verdict

Answer 25

A guilty or not guilty is handed down by the jury

Question 26

Sentence

Answer 26

The punishment given two a person who had been convicted by a crime

Question 27

Warrent

Answer 27

A written order from a judge or magistrate that allows the police to arrest a person if to conduct a search

Question 28

Your honor

Answer 28

The way a Judge is addressed