Innocence Project Legal Terms

Choose the correct definition of perjury:

• A person who gives information

• Done in the heat of the moment

• The attorney did not properly represent the client

• Lying on the witness stand

Select the crimes that people can be found guilty of in a court of law from the selection below:

• Informant

• First degree murder

• Aggravated Assault

• Battery

Choose the correct definition for recant:

• the victim/witness later changes his or her story or takes back the statement altogether

• Done with the intention and planning

• (of an opinion, decision, or vote) held or carried by everyone involved

• the failure to exercise the care toward others

What does it mean if a person is exonerated?

• They lied on the witness stand

• They negligently causing the death of another person

• When the attorney did not properly represent their client

• When a person who has been convicted of a crime is officially cleared based on new evidence of innocence

What does an informant do?

• Kills someone with intention

• Gives information to another person

• Negligently cause the death of another person

• Lie on the witness stand

What term goes with the following definition?

an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury

• Battery

• Aggravated Assault

• Recant

• Unanimous

What does the term unanimous mean?

• A false confession

• When a person who has been convicted of a crime is officially cleared based on new evidence of innocence

• Negligently causing the death of another person

• an opinion, decision, or vote held or carried by everyone involved

What terms below involve killing another person?

• Manslaughter

• 1st degree murder

• Assault

• Battery

What is government misconduct?

• The failure to exercise the care toward others which a reasonable or prudent person would do in the same or similar circumstances

• An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury.

• When police, prosecutors, or other government officials significantly abused their authority or the judicial process in a manner that contributed to the exoneree's conviction

What is the purpose for the Innocence Project?

• It's an organization that hires attorneys to prove someone's innocence.

• It's an organization created to free people serving prison sentences for crimes they did not commit.

• It's an organization created to find people guilty of crimes.

• It's an organization created to free people serving prison sentences for crimes they committed.