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Abet - Answer-(v.) to encourage, assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong or
unworthy)
Affirmative defense - Answer-I did it but... or self defense.
A response to a plaintiff's claim that does not deny the plaintiff's facts but attacks the
plaintiff's legal right to bring an action. An example is the running of the statute of
limitations.
Felony - Answer-Crime punishable by death, life imprisonment or imprisonment for
more than 12 months
Another - Answer-A person or persons other than the accused
Aggravation - Answer-n. The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime ,
offense, misfortune, etc.
Alibi - Answer-a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act,
typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.
Amenable - Answer-(adj.) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive;
responsive; liable to be held responsible
Burden of proof - Answer-the obligation to present evidence to support one's claim
Coercion - Answer-the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force
or threats
Conspiracy - Answer-a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an
unlawful act
Conviction - Answer-A fixed or strong belief or opinion
Crime - Answer-An act against the law
Criminal attempt - Answer-Act or omission constituting a substantial step in a course of
conduct planned to culminate in the commission of a crime.
Culpability - Answer-a state of guilt
, Deadly weapon - Answer-Any instrument, which by its contemplated design or by the
manner it is used, is readily capable of causing substantial bodily harm or death.
Delusional compulsion - Answer-
Common Law - Answer-(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial
decisions
Constitution - Answer-A document which spells out the principles by which a
government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society. 7 Articles
Statutes - Answer-written laws enacted by legislatures
Case Law - Answer-the rules of law announced in court decisions
Article 1 - Answer-Legislative Branch
Article 2 - Answer-Executive Branch
Article 3 - Answer-Judicial Branch
Article 4 - Answer-Relations among states, extradition crimes between states
Article 5 - Answer-Amending the Constitution
Article 6 - Answer-Article of the Constitution that sets the status of the Constitution as
the supreme law of the land, to which leaders must be loyal.
Article 7 - Answer-Ratification of the Constitution
First amendment - Answer-Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
government for a redress of grievances.
Second amendment - Answer-A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of
a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Third amendment - Answer-The government may not house soldiers in private homes
without consent of the owner
Fourth amendment - Answer-The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or
things to be seized.
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