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| Security to insure court appearance. |
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| Code of Criminal Procedure |
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| Everyone who handled evidence |
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| Disobedience to the court |
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| Heroin, marijuana, illegal weapons |
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| the degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offense |
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| guaranteed by the 5th and 14th amendments |
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| Why a person is being held |
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Methods of filing charges |
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A. Grand Jury Indictment
B. Bill of Information
C. Affidavit |
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No contest, does not contend the charges
(one of the four plea options in court) |
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| Number of jurors for different types of offenses: |
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A. Relative Felony (6/6)
B. Felony (12/10)
C. Capitol Cases (12/12) |
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A. Guilty
B. Not Guilty
C. Nolo Contendere
D. Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity |
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more than a mere suspicion but less than beyond a reasonable doubt.
(50+ percent certainty) |
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| Revised Statute Title 14 - Criminal Charges |
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| Traffic codes and regulations |
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| Public health and drug codes |
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| To take into custody, to arrest |
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| To bring the accused before a judge, in open court, where he pleads to the charges against him |
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| In criminal practice, to bring an accused to the bar of the court in order that he may plea |
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| The taking of one person into custody by another. |
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| An obligation signed by the accused, with sureties, to secure his presence in court. |
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| Theh science of the flight of projectiles (i.e.) bullets from a weapon |
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| process issued from the "bench" for the arrest of one named or described therein. |
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| in the law of evidence, the necessity or duty of affirmatively providing a fact or facts in dispute |
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| the removal of a suit from one jurisdiction to another or from one court to another within the same jurisdiction |
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| All evidence of an indirect nature; the process of decisions by which a court or jury may reason from circumstances known or proven to establish by interference, the principal fact (guilt). |
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| A collection compendium or revision of laws systematically arranged into chapters, table of contents, indexed and formulated by legislative authority. |
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| Compelling a person to do that which he does not have to do, or to omit that he may legally do; by some illegal threat, force, intimidation, etc. |
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| A sworn written allegation stating that a specified person committed a crime |
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