Mock Trial Vocab Assesment

Bailiff

• The person who maintains the jurors and calls the trial into session

• When one the attorney’s feels the other has overstepped one of the rules of evidence

• the court's ruling

•  the mandatory proving of a fact that has been argued about

Bench

• The courts ruling

• When one the attorney’s feels the other has overstepped one of the rules of evidence.

• Where the Judges sit

court's decision that someone is innocent

• Acquittal

• Counsel

• Impeach

• Defense Attorney

Civil Case

• last remarks from the attorneys addressing the jury and summarizing the trial

  Counsel- attorney(s)

• Bailiff

• questioning of a witness from your team

•  lawsuit filed under the pretense that a person/company has lost something because of the accused

defendant’s representative

• Decision

• Impeach

• Defense Attorney

• Acquittal

Objection

• When one the attorney’s feels the other has overstepped one of the rules of evidence

• When you knowingly tell a lie in court after you’ve sworn to tell the truth.

• It’s an additional argument after the closing argument given by the prosecution/plaintiff

• person who has been charged

Impeach

• lawsuit filed under the pretense that a person/company has lost something because of the accused 

• trying to prove that a witness from the opposing team has shared false information

• the mandatory proving of a fact that has been argued about

• case involving someone who has been accused of a crime

A lawyer's request in court to earn a ruling in favor of their client.

• Plaintiff

• Motion

• Overrule

• Decision

Burden Of Proof

• last remarks from the attorneys addressing the jury and summarizing the trial

• The decision made by the Judges about the outcome of the trail

• the mandatory proving of a fact that has been argued about

• trying to prove that a witness from the opposing team has shared false information

Prosecutor

• A lawyer that handles the criminal case on behalf of the State

• last remarks from the attorneys addressing the jury and summarizing the trial

• person who has been charged

• One of the sides' explanations they propose for their facts in the case