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DNA evidence
DNA Evidence, Cases of Exoneration When available and properly utilized, DNA is a powerful component of the forensic science and criminal justice systems; it can link seemingly unrelated crimes, resolve cold cases, track violent offenders both in and out of the penal system, solve crimes which... Read more |
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Nolo Contendere
NOLO CONTENDERE [Latin, I will not contest it.] A plea in a criminal case by which the defendant answers the charges made in the indictment by declining to dispute or admit the fact of his or her guilt. The defendant who pleads nolo contendere submits for a udgment fixing a fine or sentence the... Read more |
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Trial by Battle
trial by battle. Before the Norman Conquest, guilt or innocence in legal disputes were decided by compurgation, where a party would summon a number of ‘oath helpers’ to swear to the reliability of his oath, or especially in cases of ‘criminal’ accusation by one of the... Read more |
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judgment
judgment decision of a court of law respecting the issues before it. The term ordinarily is not applied to the decree (order) of courts of equity . The outstanding characteristic of a legal judgment, in contrast to an equitable decree, is its finality and fixity; thus, except for error... Read more |
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innocent
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Plea
PLEA A formal response by the defendant to the affirmative assertions of the plaintiff in a civil case or to the charges of the prosecutor in a criminal case. Under the old system of common-law pleading, a plea was the defendant's first pleading in a case, the document in which he set out reasons... Read more |
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Conviction
CONVICTION The outcome of a criminal prosecution which concludes in a judgment that the defendant is guilty of the crime charged. The juncture of a criminal proceeding during which the question of guilt is ascertained. In a case where the perpetrator has been adjudged guilty and sentenced, a record... Read more |
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Bakke case
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arrest
arrest in law, seizure and detention of a person, either to bring him before a court body or official, or to otherwise secure the administration of the law. A person may be arrested for an alleged violation of civil or criminal law. Civil arrest is most often used when one has been guilty of civil ... Read more |
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Clinical psychiatry
Psychiatry Forensic psychiatric evaluations are crucial to many civil and criminal court decisions. Psychiatrists are requested to assess the level of criminal and legal responsibility of defenders in cases of fraud, embezzlement, murder , physical aggression, disputes for child custody, and other... Read more |
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COLUMN: To discern the innocent and the guilty
...anthrax, if they're ever caught...to sign them. So tracking these...population into "innocent" and "guilty," "victimized...are innocent -- so innocent, in fact...Otherwise, you're a loner ... |
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O.J. Simpson, innocent or guilty, is no victim. (Originated from...
...people have become so jaundiced, they are...tragedy. Whether he is innocent or guilty, he is hardly a victim...sing: ``They're trying to bring down...hell out of me that so few people will accept...And unless we're willing ... |
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GUILTY TILL PROVEN INNOCENT; Mensing faced ruin over drug ban.(Sport)
...situation where you are innocent until proven guilty, this came from the...When you know you're innocent you need...players in the world. So this young couple...another but when you're innocent you ... |
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COLUMN: Guilty until proven innocent
...word never sounded so good to them. Six...physical evidence proving so. Then finally, on...announcement that they were innocent.For 395 days, David...Colin Finnerty were guilty until proven innocent...were untouchable, so ... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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GUILTY TILL PROVEN INNOCENT?
...NJ) 11-20-1994 GUILTY TILL PROVEN INNOCENT?Compiled by Trenton...about crime has become so crude, many people...Supreme Court -- so by the time Jipping...incident: Are we so afraid of crime that...there today." We're off to ... |
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Isn't man innocent until proven guilty?; There's nothing wrong with talking...
...is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. In fact, when you...first things you're told. The defendant...innocent until proven guilty" is an ideal...escaped FBI custody, so he is a slick guy...by police), then ... |
 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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GUILTY UNTIL FOUND INNOCENT.(NEWS)(Editorial)
...the Nov. 4 ballot, so let's start with...likelihood the person is guilty or poses a serious...Why not protect the innocent? Lock up the criminals...innocent until proven guilty. Issue 1 would flip...first; prove you're ... |
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Guilty until proved innocent
...is to protect the innocent from being wrongly...for all the other innocent people who will be...to adjust the law so that from now on...innocent until proved guilty beyond all reasonable...Act to prevent him re-entering, ... |
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Guilty ... until proven innocent; In today's culture of suspicion, everyone...
...filching supplies. So when the office...your home, you're caught off guard...said that all are innocent until proven guilty. "If she does...enough to be presumed guilty yourself, it...feels as if we are guilty until proven ... |
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Gorman: Guilty, until proven innocent
...everyone as if they are innocent until proven guilty, I operate under...Everyone in pro sports is guilty, until proven innocent...revelation by Landis so remarkable. "No...similar approach, going so far as to say he ... |
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