Courthouse Vocabulary Quiz

For all answers you provide, the highlighted parts of your definitions are a key part of your answers.  Follow the directions for each section.

Fill in or answer the questions:

1. COURT:  An agency of _______________________________.  It has the authority to decide on what three things? ______________________, ____________________, _____________.
2. Arrest is the taking of an ______________ or ___________ into ____________   ________________ by ____________________   ____  ______________.
3. Bail guarantees a person will do what? 
4. How is a fine different from  bail?
5. What are the two major kinds of court cases?  What are each of them about?
6. What is the limitation to the punishment in a misdemeanor?
7. What are the two possible punishments for a felony?
8. Give an example of an infraction:
9. A lawyer is licensed to do what two things?
10. Who is the prosecutor in a criminal case?
11. What would your lawyer be called if he was representing YOU in a criminal case?
12. A judge is empowered to do what two things in a legal case?
13. When the accused in a criminal case is brought to court, what three things happen?
14. When is a preliminary held for a criminal case?  What is decided there?
15. A trial is the _______ and _______ of issues of fact and law, in accordance with legal _______________ in order to reach a _________.  Court trials are heard and decided by a ___________.  Jury trials are heard and decided by a _______ ___ _______.