CRIME, PUNISHMENT, LAW III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary

 

The answer to each clue will be a word associated with crime, punishment, or law.

 

1. Wrongdoing by a public official

2. To formally charge with a crime

3. An oath or sworn statement

4. A general pardon

5. Accused person sent back to custody

6. A court calendar of the cases to be tried

7. Legal term used to refer to a dead person

8. Previous legal ruling in a comparable case 

9. Period in which legal action may be brought

10. Formally call into court to answer for a crime

11. The withholding of punishment in return for testimony

12. A legal or judiciary hearing concerning a person's death  

13. Circumstances which may be considered as reducing the severity of a crime

14. Process by which a wanted criminal is returned from one state/country to another

15. An accused person who is released without bail, but with the understanding that he will appear when required to answer the charge against him is said to be released on his own _______.

Answers:

 

1. Malfeasance

2. Indict

3. Affidavit

4. Amnesty

5. Remanded

6. Docket

7. Decedent

8. Precedent

9. Statute of limitations

10. Arraign

11. Impunity

12 .Inquest

13. Mitigating or extenuating

14. Extradition 

15. Recognizance