The document discusses legal terms related to criminal trials and convictions. It includes words like charged, tried, convicted, sentenced, verdict, testified, prosecuted, innocence, victim, arrested, suspicious, witnesses, and guilty. Sample sentences use many of these terms in the context of a murder trial, a bank robbery, sentencing of young offenders, an appeal of a murder conviction, and denial of allegations.
The document discusses legal terms related to criminal trials and convictions. It includes words like charged, tried, convicted, sentenced, verdict, testified, prosecuted, innocence, victim, arrested, suspicious, witnesses, and guilty. Sample sentences use many of these terms in the context of a murder trial, a bank robbery, sentencing of young offenders, an appeal of a murder conviction, and denial of allegations.
The document discusses legal terms related to criminal trials and convictions. It includes words like charged, tried, convicted, sentenced, verdict, testified, prosecuted, innocence, victim, arrested, suspicious, witnesses, and guilty. Sample sentences use many of these terms in the context of a murder trial, a bank robbery, sentencing of young offenders, an appeal of a murder conviction, and denial of allegations.
1. Lawyers are expected to call at least 10 _______________ to testify during the
murder trial. 2. The police became _______________ when they noticed a nervous-looking man waiting outside the bank. 3. The murder _______________ lasted over three months, and included the testimony of dozens of witnesses. 4. In my opinion, most young offenders should be _______________ to do community service rather than to go to jail. 5. Everyone gasped in surprise when the______________was read out. 6. The young boy looked up _______________ as his parents entered the police station where he was being held for car theft. 7. Lawyers for Paul Anderson have announced that they will appeal his _______________ for murder. 8. The first _______________ of the electric chair took eight minutes to die. 9. The accused murderer continued to protest his _______________ right up to the day that he was executed. 10. The _______________ in the case is expected to be handed down this afternoon. 11. The prime minister denies _______________ that he lied to parliament. 12. In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, _______________ 42 men on the beach for wearing a topless bathing suit. 13. President Clinton of the U.S. _______________ during the investigation that he hadn't had an affair with Monica Lewinsky. 14. Anyone found shoplifting in the store will be _______________ for theft.
Joseph Bontempo v. Peter Fenton, Warden, Rahway State Penitentiary, and James R. Zazzali, Attorney General of The State of New Jersey, 692 F.2d 954, 3rd Cir. (1982)