Justice Vocabulary Quiz

a course of legal proceedings according to rules and principles that have been established in a system of jurisprudence for the enforcement and protection of private rights.

• Due process

• Acquittal

• Ethics

• Counsel

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.

• Evidence

• Testimony

• Counsel

• Appeal

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

a release from the penalty of an offense; a remission of penalty, as by a governor.

• Appeal

• Aquittal

• Pardon

• Testimony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

a system of moral principles:

• Mandate

• Punishment

• Propagation

• Ethics

to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial

• Convict

• Ridicule

• Trial

• Rationalize

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical

• Ethics

• Morals

• Provision

• Rehabilitation

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a penalty inflicted for an offense, fault, etc.

• Rehabilitation

• Inhumane

• Punishment

• Vadalism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

he advocate or advocates engaged in the direction of a cause in court; a legal adviser

• Counsel

• Victim

• Suspect

• Perpetrator

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

To restore to a former capacity

• Punishment

• Rationalize

• Rehabilitation

• Marginalize

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law

• Aquittal

• Testimony

• Punishment

• Trial

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.8