Street Law Chapter 14 Vocabulary

every person involved in a legal dispute is entitled to a fair hearing or trial

• Petitioner
• writ
• Subpoena
• Due process

process in which the members of a jury are chosen

• writ
• waive
• Indigent
• Voir dire

a lawyers request that a potential juror be eliminated for some specific reason

• For cause challenge
• Due process
• Appellant
• Peremptory challenges

part of the pre trial jury selection

• Peremptory challenges
• Contempt of court
• For cause challenge
• Due process

requires a witness to appear to court to testify

• Due process
• Subpoena
• Indigent
• waive

any act to embarrass the court

• habeas-corpus
• Contempt of court
• Due process
• Petitioner

exempt from penalties

• Indigent
• Immunity
• writ
• Mistrial

Those without financial means

• waive
• Subpoena
• writ
• Indigent

a defendant cannot be prosecuted a second time for the same crime

• Subpoena
• Due process
• Voir dire
• Double jeopardy

the termination of a trial before its normal conclusion

• writ
• Immunity
• Voir dire
• Mistrial