Monster Legal/Movie Vocab

Secure places where juveniles are usually held while they await trial hearings or other further placement decisions...

• Holding cell

• Prison

• Court

• Detention center

Murder committed when someone commits a certain kind of felony (arson, rape, robbery, burglary) and someone else dies in the course of it. In other words, the defendant didn’t set out to murder someone, but someone was murdered in the act of committing another felony.

• Felony Murder

• Intentional Murder

• 1st Degree Murder

• Manslaughter

Lawyer who conducts the case against the defendant in criminal court; this lawyer is trying to put Steve in jail

• Defense Attorney

• Prosecutor

• Law Student

• Judge

Lawyer who defends someone accused of a crime in a court of law; this lawyer is trying to defend Steve.

• Defense attorney

• Prosecutor

• Judge

• Law student

Person whose job it is to record and transcribe the official verbatim record of the legal proceedings of court

• Stenographer/court reporter

• Court clerk

• Defense attorney

• District attorney

Person who does many jobs in court, including maintaining records, administering oaths, and maintaining exhibits.

• Prosecutor

• District attorney

• Stenographer/court reporter

• Court clerk

The traditional standard of proof that must be exceeded to secure a guilty verdict in a criminal case. It may arise from careful and impartial consideration of all the evidence or lack of evidence in a case.

• Verdict

• Admissible

• Reasonable doubt

• Suppress

Solemn declaration made by a witness under oath in response to interrogation by a lawyer in a court of law.

• Reasonable doubt

• Verdict

• Testimony

• Objection

Acceptable or valid, especially in a court of law; if something is admissible, it will be allowed to be shared in court

• Admissible

• Suppress

• Objection

• Overruled

To prevent the sharing of - to not allow something to be shared in court; if evidence is suppressed, it cannot be shared

• Objection

• Suppress

• Sustained

• Withdrawn