Mock Trial Vocabulary

a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing

• Defendent
• Accomplice
• Prosecutor
• Plaintiff

to help or make the action easier 

• facilitate
• premeditate
• overview
• preside

to help, assist or support in the achievement of something

• misdemeanor 
• tp abet
• to aid
• accomplice 

a minor breaking the rules

• premeditated
• accomplice
• abet
• misdemeanor

to encourage or assist someone to do something wrong wrong, in particular, to commit a crime or other offence

• aiding
• abetting
• facilitating
• premeditated

to plan or think of something beforehand

• to premeditate
• to facilitate
• to aid
• to abet

BONUS: Prosecution...

• attempts to find the defendant guilty
• attempts to find the defendant not guilty
• facilitates the trial
• delivers the verdict

BONUS: The Defense...

• attempts to find the defendant guilty
• attempts to find the defendant not guility
• facilitates the trial
• delivers the verdict

BONUS: The direct examination is...

• The friendly interrogation of your own witnesses
• the unfriendly interrogation of the other side's witnesses

BONUS: The jury is...

• A group of citizens selected and sworn, according to the law, to inquire about certain facts about evidence presented to them. 
• The person against whom a criminal complaint or indictment is filed: the “accused”. 
• Based on those findings, the jury is expected to find the defendant “guilty” or “not guilty”. 
• A licensed trial lawyer, hired or appointed to conduct the legal defense of a person accused of a crime and to represent him/her before a court of law