Glosario Ingles

Kidnapping

The crime of unlawfully seizing and carrying away a person by force or Fraud, or seizing and detaining a person against his or her will with an intent to carry that person away at a later time.

Defendant

The person defending or denying; the party against whom relief or recovery is sought in an action or suit, or the accused in a criminal case.

Charged

To impose a burden, duty, obligation, or lien; to create a claim against property; to assess; to demand; to accuse; to instruct a jury on matters of law. To impose a tax, duty, or trust. To entrust with responsibilities and duties (e.g., care of another). In commercial transactions, to bill or invoice; to purchase on credit. In Criminal Law, to indict or formally accuse.

Murder

The unlawful killing of another human being without justification or excuse.

Questionnaire

noun blank, canvas, census, examination paper, form, form to be completed, form to be filled in, inquiry, poll, public opinion poll, quession list, request for information, statement, study, survey.

juror

any person who actually serves on a jury. Lists of potential jurors are chosen from various sources such as registered voters, automobile registration or telephone directories. The names are drawn by lot (more often by computer random selection) and requested to appear for possible service. Before a trial begins the names of jurors are assigned to a trial court, and a further selection process is made. Acceptable excuses from service are determined by state law or by the judge before or during the final selection process. If chosen, a juror receives a small amount of pay per day of service and payment for automobile mileage from home to court. A member of a grand jury is called a grand juror.

District Attorney

(D.A.) n. an elected official of a county or a designated district with the responsibility for prosecuting crimes. The duties include managing the prosecutor's office, investigating alleged crimes in cooperation with law enforcement, and filing criminal charges or bringing evidence before the Grand Jury that may lead to an indictment for a crime. In some states a District Attorney is officially entitled County Attorney or State's Attorney. United States Attorneys are also called Federal District Attorneys and are prosecutors for districts (there are several in larger states) within the Department of Justice, are appointed by the President and serve at his/her pleasure.

Prosecute

To follow through; to commence and continue an action or judicial proceeding to its ultimate conclusion. To proceed against a defendant by charging that person with a crime and bringing him or her to trial.

The state, on behalf of the people, generally prosecutes a defendant accused of a crime.

Trial

A judicial examination and determination of facts and legal issues arising between parties to a civil or criminal action.

Jury selection

In trials, a group of people who are selected and sworn to inquire into matters of fact and to reach a verdict on the basis of the evidence presented to them.

Autopsy

The dissection of a dead body by a medical examiner or physician authorized by law to do so in order to determine the cause and time of a death that appears to have resulted from other than natural causes.

Forensic pathology

The branch of medical science that uses medical knowledge for legal purposes; "forensic pathology provided the evidence that convicted the murderer"

Office of coroner

A public officer whose primary function is to investigate by inquest any death thought to be of other than natural causes.

Issues

a. The act or an instance of flowing, passing, or giving out.

b. The act of circulating, distributing, or publishing by an office or official group: government issue of new bonds.

2. Something produced, published, or offered, as:

a. An item or set of items, as stamps or coins, made available at one time by an office or bureau.

b. A single copy of a periodical: the May issue of the magazine.

c. A distinct set of copies of an edition of a book distinguished from others of that edition by variations in the printed matter.

d. A final result or conclusion, as a solution to a problem.

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