Courtroom Vocabulary

The way a judge is addressed in a courtroom.

• Docket
• Your Honor
• Docket
• Judgement

The result of a criminal trial in which a person is found guilty.

• Docket
• Appeal
• Bail
• Conviction

To send a case back to the court from which it came for further proceedings.

• Remand
• Reverse
• Sustained
• Warrant

By, or for, or on the request of one party only, without notice to any other party.

• Docket
• Mistrial
• Information
• Ex Parte

Any hearing or court appearance related to the adjudication of a case.

• Sentence
• Oath
• Verdict
• Proceeding

The decision of a court of law.

• Motion
• Bail
• Mistrial
• Judgement

A written order from a judge or magistrate that allows the police to arrest a person or to conduct a search.

• Hearing
• Warrant
• Motion
• Appeal

An accusation of a crime, made against a person by a grand jury upon the request of a prosecutor.

• Indictment
• Judgement
• Mistrial
• Motion

To set aside a judgement on appeal or proceedings in error.

• Plead
• Proceeding
• Parole
• Reverse

When the accused is brought before the court to hear the charges against him or her.  They plead guilty or not guilty at this time.

• Appeal
• Bail
• Conviction
• Arraignment