Legal Balderdash

Rigor Mortis is

• the search for evidence

• stolen goods

• stiffening of muscles after death

• death flies that collect on a corpse

Mens Reas is

• not guilty due to mental illness

• the guilty mind in a crime

• evidence through hypnosis

• collection of DNA evidence

Postmortem is the searching of someone's home for evidence after their death.

• True

• False

Ex parte

• a divorced couple

• you fire your lawyer

• heard in a special court

• ruling made by one party

Certioria is the

• body cremated after an autopsy

• lawyer that deals with traffic deaths

• request for documents to go to a higher court

• Court that hears only custody cases.

An alibi is a legal defence proving the defendant was in a different place when the crime happened.

• True

• False

Scientier is

• having guilty knowledge

• Lawyer that deals with DNA evidence

• contract protecting scientific discovers

• powder used to reveal invisible prints.

Ad infinitum is a lawsuit for false advertising.

• True

• False

Corpus delecti

• the body of the offence

• the findings of death

• corpse by drowning

• the weakest argument in a legal defence

Doli Incapax

• crime committed by a child

• guilty of an offence

• incapable of a crime

• inability to admit guilty