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- arrest
- to seize by authority of the law
- Habeas Corpus
- a writ requiring that a detained person be brought before a court to decide the legality of the detention
- jury
- a group of people sworn to hear evidence in a law case and to give decision
- grand jury
- a jury that investigates accusations and indicts persons for trial if there is sufficient evidence
- trial jury
- a group of citizens who are charged with judging a person charged with a crime.
- indictment
- detention, censure, incrimination
- arraignment
- to bring before a law court to answer charges
- plea bargain
- to engage in plea bargaining
- nolo contendere
- a plea in a criminal prosecution that subjects the defendant to conviction but does not admit guilt or proclude the charges in another proceeding.
- sentence
- to decree the fate or punishment of one adjudged guilty, unworthy, or unfit
- Miranda rights
- what an officer say when they are getting ready to put in hand cuffs.
- due process
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- fifth amendment
- due process, double jeopardy, and then there is self- incimination
- sixth amendment
- trial by jury and other rights of the accused
- seventh amendment
- civial trial by jury