Legal Terms tagged with 'Criminal Defense'
- Ability to Stand Trial
- Absolute Liability
- Absolute Pardon
- Acceptance of Plea
- Acceptance of Service
- Accomplice
- Accumulative Judgment
- Accuser
- Acquit
- Actual Violence
- Pro Se
- Appearance
- Arraignment
- Bail
- Battery
- Change of Venue
- Conviction
- Corroborating Evidence
- Criminal Defendant
- Criminal Judge
- Criminal Lawyer
- Discovery
- Evidence
- Felony
- Grand Jury
- Hearsay
- Indictment
- Larceny
- Leading Question
- Manslaughter
- Miranda Warning
- Murder
- No Bill
- Objection
- Plea
- Plea Bargain
- Retainer
- Warrant
- Witness
- Administrative License Revocation Hearing
- Administrative Per Se Laws
- Aggravated DUI
- Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)
- Blood Test
- Breathalyzer Test
- Burn Off
- Chemical Dependency Evaluation
- Chemical Test
- Diversion
- Driving Under the Influence (DUI)
- DWI Assault
- Enhancements
- Expungement
- Field Sobriety Test
- Habitual Offender
- Hardship License
- Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus
- Ignition Interlock Device (IID)
- Legal Limit
- One-Leg Stand Test
- Operating Under the Influence (OUI)
- Per Se Law
- Preliminary Alcohol Screening (PAS)
- Probable Cause
- Rising Alcohol Defense
- Test Refusal
- Urine Test
- Walk and Turn Test
- Wet Reckless
- Work Permit
- Zero Tolerance
- Clear and Convincing Evidence
- Misdemeanor
- Abuse Excuse
- Accomplice Witness
- Actus Reus
- Admission Against Interest
- Admission of Guilt
- Adverse Party
- Affirmative Defense
- Aid and Abet
- Alford Plea
- Alibi
- Allocution
- Anticipatory Warrant
- Assault
- Assault and Battery
- Attorney
- Back-to-Back Life Sentences
- Badgering the Witness
- Bailee (Custodian)
- Bench Trial
- Bill Of Particulars
- Blackmail
- Burden of Persuasion
- Capital Case
- Capital Offense
- Castle Doctrine
- Character Witness
- Civil Penalty
- Clemency
- Closing Argument
- Codefendant
- Competence
- Competent Witness
- Complete Defense
- Compounding a Felony
- Condonation
- Confrontation Clause
- Indirect Contempt of Court
- Reasonable Suspicion
- Cop a Plea
- Crime of Passion
- Criminal
- Criminal Attorney
- Criminal Case
- Criminal Law
- CSI Effect
- Culpability
- Defense
- Demonstrative Evidence
- Demurrer
- Diminished Capacity
- Direct Examination
- Trier of Fact
- Exculpatory Evidence
- Exclusionary Rule
- Ex Post Facto
- Entrapment
- False Advertising
- False Imprisonment
- Felonious
- Felony Murder Doctrine
- Fighting Words
- Forgery
- Genuine Issue of Material Fact
- Guilty
- Habit Evidence
- Harmless Error
- Hostile Witness
- Imprison
- In Re Gault (1967)
- Inadmissible
- Incapacity
- Inchoate Offense
- Incompetence
- Intentional Tort
- International Crime
- Interrogation
- Intoxication
- Involuntary
- Irrelevant
- Irresistible Impulse Test
- Judgment Proof
- Jury Nullification
- Justifiable Homicide
- Legality
- Malicious Prosecution
- Material Witness
- McNabb-Mallory Rule
- Mens Rea
- Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
- Mistake of Fact
- Mistake of Law
- Money Laundering
- Motion to Dismiss
- Motion to Quash
- Motion to Strike
- Motion to Suppress
- Necessity
- Negligence Per Se
- Nolo Contendere
- Norris v. Alabama (1935)
- Notice
- Nullum Crimen Sine Lege
- Own Recognizance
- Opening Statement
- Overt Act
- Pardon
- Parole
- Partial Defense
- Partial Verdict
- Peace Bond
- Pinkerton Liability
- Plain View Doctrine
- Plea Colloquy
- Plea in Abatement
- Polygraph
- Autopsy
- Praecipe
- Warrantless Arrest
- Provocation
- Reasonable Belief
- Reasonable Doubt
- Rebuttable Presumption
- Rebuttal
- Recidivism
- Reciprocal Discovery
- Red Herring
- Res Gestae
- Respondent
- Retrial
- Reversible Error
- Robbery
- Safe Harbor
- Scienter
- Second Degree Murder
- Self-Defense
- Self-Incrimination
- Sentence
- Sex Offender
- Shocks the Conscience
- Shoplifting
- Special Prosecutor
- Speedy Trial
- Speedy Trial Act (1974)
- Summary Adjudication
- Suppression of Evidence
- Surrebuttal
- Suspended Sentence
- Sustained
- Swear
- Swift Witness
- False Evidence
- Take the Fifth
- Target Witness
- Temporary Insanity
- Testify
- Time Served
- Treble Damages
- Turn State's Evidence
- Turncoat Witness
- Twinkie Defense
- Unjust Enrichment
- Unlawful Confinement
- Vacatur
- Veracity
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- Watkins v. United States (1957)
- Wells Submission
- White-Collar Crime
- Wilful Killing
- Willful
- Youthful Offender
- Zealous Witness
- Admission of Evidence
- Admission to Bail
- Argumentative
- Arraign
- Day in Court
- Equal Protection of the Law
- Indictable Offense
- Innocent
- Inquest
- Insanity Defense
- Insider Trading
- Judge Advocate General (JAG)
- Lesser Included Offense
- Passion
- Premeditation
- Presumption of Innocence
- Prime Suspect
- Prior
- Privilege Against Self-Incrimination
- Pro Per
- Probation
- Probative
- Probative Value
- Prosecute
- Prosecution
- Prostitute
- Public Defender
- Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Statue (RICO)
- Sine Qua Non
- Three Strikes, You're Out
- Plea Agreement
- Plausible Deniability
- Tolling Agreement
- Attempted Assault
- Assault With A Deadly Weapon
- Negligent Homicide
- Reckless Homicide
- Depraved Heart Murder
- Felony Murder
- Attenuate
- Atone
- Involuntary Manslaughter
- Domestic Assault
- Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA, GCA68)
- Arrestee
- Perpetrator
- Victim
- Relevance
- Speculation
- Detention
- Child Protective Services (CPS)
- Overturn
- Recognizance
- Michael Morton Act
- Life Imprisonment
- Rape Kit
- Wrongful Conviction
- Pretrial
- Prosecutorial Discretion
- Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD)
- Criminal Charge
- Arresting Officer
- DNA Profiling
- DNA Evidence
- Community Sentence
- Civil Compromise
- Restorative Justice
- Anger Management
- Consciousness of Guilt
- Lesser Related Offense
- Deferred Adjudication
- Opposing Counsel
- Fact Witness
- Plea in Abeyance
- Adjudication Withheld
- First Offense
- Initial Appearance
- Presentence Investigation Report (PSIR)
- Legal Representation
- Co-Conspirator
- Complicity
- Public Urination
- Unclassified Misdemeanor
- Fleeing Felon Rule
- Informant
- Suspect
- Investigation
- Rest
- Detainee
- Information
- Attempted Murder
- Consensual Crime
- Delict
- Bar
- Crime Scene
- Tampering with Evidence
- Dispositive Motion
- Conclusive Presumption
- Ignorantia Juris Non Excusat
- Oral Argument
- Pretrial Intervention Program
- Injustice
- Proportionality
- Defense of Infancy
- Parole Board
- Prisoner
- Traffic Ticket
- Stand-Your-Ground Law
- Duty to Retreat
- False Confession
- Legal Technicality
- Gay Panic Defense
- Trans Panic Defense
- Strike from the Record
