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