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COURT INTERPRETER WRITTEN EXAMApex - Answers-the highest point, zenith
Nimble - Answers-moving quickly and lightly, agile
demur - Answers-to object
Default - Answers-fail to do something required to do
Deponent - Answers-Person giving testimony
Discovery - Answers-The pretrial procedures used by the parties to obtain information
about
the case from the other parties in order to prepare for trial. (Exchange of evidence)
Dismiss trial without prejudice - Answers-Without right to a new trial
Dismiss case with prejudice - Answers-Without a right to a new trial
Diversion - Answers-The suspension of criminal prosecution of an offender. The
offender may
be asked to participate in a treatment or supervisory program in exchange for his
agreement to stop or to suspend prosecution. (alternate program)
Hearsay evidence, testimony - Answers-A written or oral out-of-court statement offered
to prove the truth of the
matter asserted. Hearsay is inadmissible into evidence, unless one or more of the
hearsay
exceptions apply.
Heretofore - Answers-up to this time
Hold harmless - Answers-of, relating to, or being an agreement between parties in
which one assumes the potential liability for injury that may arise from a situation and
thus relieves the other of liability
hung jury - Answers-no unanimous decision
Indictment - Answers-A formal written accusation submitted to a grand jury by a
prosecutor,
charging one or more persons with one or more crimes. The grand jury must determine
whether the person or persons named should be prosecuted for the crime charged, in
which case the indictment is endorsed by the foreman of the grand jury as a true bill. An
indictment authorizes trial of the persons named for the crimes charged.
, Indict - Answers-to accuse formally
Interdiction - Answers-Prohibition
Intestate - Answers-having made no valid will
Double Jeopardy - Answers-Trial of a person by the same jurisdiction more than once
for
the same crime. The U.S. Constitution prohibits subjecting persons to double jeopardy.
Jurisdiction - Answers-The power to hear and to decide cases. Jurisdiction exists over
particular types of cases (i.e., over subject matter), and over parties (i.e., personal
jurisdiction). Also used to refer to a particular unit of government (e.g., a state),
particularly with respect to its judicial powers (e.g., different jurisdictions have different
legal tests for insanity).
Larceny - Answers-theft
Lechery - Answers-lewdness
Levy - Answers-tax or fee
Libel - Answers-written defamation
Parole - Answers-A conditional release from imprisonment which entitles the person
receiving
the parole to serve the remainder of his term outside of prison if he satisfactorily
complies with all the terms and conditions connected therewith.
Plea bargain - Answers-Plea negotiations can center around the defendant's pleading
guilty to a lesser offense, or
to only one or several of the counts in a multi-count indictment or information. In return,
the defendant seeks to obtain concessions as to the type or length of his sentence or
the
reduction or elimination of charges against him.
Peremptory challenge - Answers-The right of a party to exclude a prospective juror from
serving on the jury for any reason and without explanation, subject to the civil rights
laws.
Probable cause - Answers-Reasonable ground for belief that certain facts exist.
Allegation - Answers-n. a statement of claimed fact contained in a complaint (a written
pleading filed to begin a lawsuit), a criminal charge, or an affirmative defense (part of
the written answer to a complaint). Until each statement is proved it is only an
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