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1. __________________ The Anglo-American system for settling disputes in court. It assumes the defendant is innocent until proven guilty.
2. __________________ A trial declared invalid for a variety of reasons such as the inability of a jury to reach a verdict, the death of a juror or counsel, or improper behavior by a juror or others involved in the trial.
3. __________________ The party in a lawsuit who appeals the court's decision to a higher court, arguing that the lower court made a mistake that prejudiced the appellant, who now deserves a reversal of the conviction (or a change in the sentence if that is the issue).
4. __________________ When a party in a lawsuit appeals the court's decision to a higher court, the party against whom this appeal is filed is called this.
5. __________________ The standard of proof in criminal cases.
6. __________________ An act by the legislature that condemns a person even though a judicial trial has not occurred. It is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution.
7. __________________ In a legal case, the duty of proving a disputed fact.
8. __________________ The aggregate of reported judicial decisions, which are legally binding court interpretations of written statutes and previous court decisions or rules made by courts in the absence of written statutes or other sources of law.
9. __________________ In contrast to criminal law, this type of law pertains to rules that are concerned with private rights. The wronged person seeks compensation rather than criminal punishment through state prosecution.
10. __________________ Reducing customs, unwritten laws, and rules to written statutes.
11. __________________ An act of omission or intention that violates criminal case or statutory law and is punishable by law.
12. __________________ Law that originates with the legislature in a written enactment.
13. __________________ Law that defines crimes and their punishments.
14. __________________ The attorney for the defendant in a legal proceeding.
15. __________________ A punishment philosophy that assumes that behavior may be controlled and criminal behavior prevented by the threat of punishment.