Ja'Shun Vocab Padlet

What is Juvenile?

• Legal activities that take place in a court of law, including hearings, trials, and motions, to resolve disputes and administer justice.

•  Legal warnings given to a person under arrest, explaining the right to remain silent and have an attorney present during questioning to protect against self-incrimination.

• A term for young individuals, typically under 18 years old, subject to special legal rules and processes.

• When a court officially makes a decision or judgment on a legal matter or case after conducting legal proceedings.

What is Court Proceedings?

• Legal warnings given to a person under arrest, explaining the right to remain silent and have an attorney present during questioning to protect against self-incrimination.

• Legal activities that take place in a court of law, including hearings, trials, and motions, to resolve disputes and administer justice.

• A formal law enacted by a legislative body, like a state or federal government, governing various aspects of society.

• A term for young individuals, typically under 18 years old, subject to special legal rules and processes.

What is Delinquency?

• The state of committing illegal acts, often referring to behaviors or actions by juveniles that violate the law.

• When a court officially makes a decision or judgment on a legal matter or case after conducting legal proceedings.

•  A person who is accused of doing something wrong or breaking the law.

• a class of serious crime and punishable with longer sentencing than a misdemeanor.

What are Miranda Rights?

• A formal law enacted by a legislative body, like a state or federal government, governing various aspects of society.

• Legal warnings given to a person under arrest, explaining the right to remain silent and have an attorney present during questioning to protect against self-incrimination.

• The formal decision or judgment made by a court, typically following legal proceedings, to resolve a legal issue or dispute.

• When a court officially makes a decision or judgment on a legal matter or case after conducting legal proceedings.

What is Prison?

• a place where people who have been convicted of a crime and found guilty are sent to serve a long-term punishment.

• a place where people who have been accused of a crime and found guilty are sent to serve a short-term punishment.

•  person who has been accused of a crime is found not guilty by the court.
  

• the members of a jury cannot come to a unanimous decision about whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty.

What is a Defendant?

• A term for young individuals, typically under 18 years old, subject to special legal rules and processes.

•  The state of committing illegal acts, often referring to behaviors or actions by juveniles that violate the law.

•  person who is accused of doing something wrong or breaking the law

• The formal decision or judgment made by a court, typically following legal proceedings, to resolve a legal issue or dispute.

What is Statue?

•  A formal law enacted by a legislative body, like a state or federal government, governing various aspects of society.

• a person who is accused of doing something wrong or breaking the law

• a person who brings a complaint or a legal case against someone else

• a class of illegal act that is less serious than a felony and carries a lighter sentence.

What is a Felony?

• a class of illegal act that is less serious than a felony and carries a lighter sentence.

• when the members of a jury cannot come to a unanimous decision about whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty

• a class of serious crime and punishable with longer sentencing than a misdemeanor

•  the person who believes they have been wronged and wants the court to help them get justice.

What is a Plaintiff?

•  the person who believes they have been wronged and wants the court to help them get justice

•  a class of illegal act that is less serious than a felony and carries a lighter sentence

• the person that the court is trying to determine if they are guilty or not guilty

• When a court officially makes a decision or judgment on a legal matter or case after conducting legal proceedings

What is a Hung Jury?

•  a class of serious crime and punishable with longer sentencing than a misdemeanor

• where people who have been convicted of a crime and found guilty are sent to serve a long-term punishment

• a person who has been accused of a crime is found not guilty by the court

• when the members of a jury cannot come to a unanimous decision about whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty