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| The offense of taking a person by fraud and persuasion or by open violence; kidnapping. |
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| Performance, deed, or movement, as distinguished from remaining at rest. |
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| Review of decision of lower court. |
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| The act of calling the defendant to court to answer an indictment or complaint. |
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| The act of seizing a person and detaining him in custody. |
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| International causing of an apprehension of harmful or offensive contact? |
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| Guarantees accused will appear in court; security given to obtain temporary release of a person under arrest. |
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| Intentional infliction of a harmful or offensive contact upon a person. (Not recognized in Ohio) |
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| Entering the name of the person arrested in the police department's arrest book. |
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| The receiving of an offering of any gift or favor in order to influence a person in the line of duty or trust. |
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| Compulsion or force; making a person act against free will. |
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| A voluntary admission of guilt. |
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| The result of a criminal trial in which a person is found guilty. |
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| "Body of the offense;" the elements necessary to prove that a crime has been committed. |
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| A violation of the law that is punished as an offense against the state or government (society) |
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| Law related to crime and punishment. |
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| Discouraging people from violating the law by making an example of people convicted of crimes. |
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| A public official, elected or appointed, whose chief duty is to prosecute suits on behalf of the state. |
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| A defense that provides that no person can be tried twice for the same offense, once acquitted. |
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| A statutory offense consisting of one's fraudulent conversion of another's personal property by one to whom it has been entrusted. |
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| Persuasive measures used by law enforcement officers to encourage a persons suspected of engaging in criminal practices to commit a crime. |
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| Proof legally presented at the trial of a case through witnesses, exhibits, and so forth. |
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| Any illegal taking of money by using threats, force, or misuse of public office. |
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| Any major crime punishable by death or imprisonment in a state prison. |
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| The fraudulent making or altering of an instrument that would, were the instrument to be accepted as genuine, impose a legal liability on another. |
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| Deception practiced to induce another to part with property or surrender some legal right that accomplishes this end. |
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| A writ of personal freedom requiring that a person unlawfully held in custody or restrained of liberty be brought into court for injury ito the matter of granting his or her release. |
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| The killing of one human being by another, whether or not the killing is lawful or justified. |
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| Keeping dangerous people isolated from the rest of society so that they cannot commit more crimes. |
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| The state of mind with which an act is done. |
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| The questioning of people in custody. |
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| Forcible abduction of a person. |
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| Stealing personal property belonging to another. |
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| The unlawful killing of another without malice. |
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| The intentional maiming of disfiguring of a person. |
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| Any crime or offense not as serious as a felony. Generally those offenses punishable by fine, imprisonment in the county jail or both. |
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| The premeditated taking of a human life. |
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| "No contest." A plea in criminal cases whereby the defendant offers no legal or factual defense to his acts, nor does he plead guilty. By doing this, he places himself at the mercy of the court. |
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| Obligation of the accused to return to court for trial when he or she has been released without bail. |
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| A conditional release of a prisoner serving an unexpired sentence. |
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| The legal offense of swearing that something is true that one knows to be false. |
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| An accused person's answer to a charge or indictment in criminal practice. |
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| Defense attorney asks the prosecutor to accept a guilty plea for a less serious charge. |
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| The act of suspending the sentence of a convicted offender while being placed under the supervision of a probation officer. |
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| Sexual intercourse with a person without consent and chiefly by force or deception. |
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| Trying to reform criminals through training, education, and counseling. |
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| Paying criminals back for the harm they have caused; a synonym for revenge. |
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| The illegal taking of property from the person of another by using force or threat of force. |
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| Rape perpetrated upon another person under a specific age in accordance with various state laws. |
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| A betrayal of one's country; starting a rebellion. |
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| A writ authorizing an arrest, search, or seizure, written permission given by a judge to arrest a person, search a house, etc. |
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