Criminal Court Words or Judicial Terms +

1. A person who is allowed by court to initiates a petition on behalf of another person, perhaps for someone who is in prison: Such amicus briefs are designed to present legal arguments or facts on behalf of someone else. Such a person is allowed to appear in court or to file a brief even though he/she has no right to participate in the litigation otherwise.
2. Etymology: from Latin, "a friend of the court".

A response to a legal charge or suit: An answer is a written reply relating to a filed complaint prepared by a litigant or defendant.

1. Any request by the defense or prosecution directed to a higher court to contest a decision or judgment by a lower court: An appeal is the legal document by which a plea is made.
2. The court case in which the request is discussed: An appeal proceeding is an official process in which a party asks a higher court to review and possibly overturn a lower court's decision-maker's verdict.

The act of coming into a court and submitting to the authority of that court: Mr. Timmons read that a court appearance referred to a person entering the court of law to take part in a trial, lawsuit, or other kind of procedure.

A person who initiates an appeal: Mrs. Hathaway was the appellant who made her submissions to the court in the town.

A court that hears appeals that come from lower courts: Appellate courts typically do not try criminal cases.

An authority who rehears cases from lower courts: An appellate jurisdiction has the duty to alter, uphold, or overturn lower court decisions.

A comprehensive rehearing of a case in a court other than the one in which it was previously tried: An appellate review involves the examination of the record of a cases from a legal standpoint, and not from factual information.

A reference to someone who prevailed, or won, in a lower court; who argues on appeal against reversing the lower court's decision: Mr. Black, the appellee was hoping to win his case in an appeals court after succeeding in the lower court.

Any rationale provided by the defense or prosecution to support one's position in court: An argument may be an oral persuasion containing facts attempted before a jury.

An official proceeding in which a defendant is formally confronted with criminal charges: As part of the arraignment, the defendant responds with a plea of being guilty, not guilty, or not contest, and a trial date is determined.

To take a person into custody and restrain by legal authority: Joe was arrested by a law enforcement officer for a crime he had committed and was brought before a court to answer the charges against him.

The person who has been arrested by police for suspicion of committing a crime: Sam learned that as an arrestee in jail for committing a crime, he had to go through a single inmate processing center another time when leaving the jail.

A criminal justice system that tends to process cases quickly and routinely: The term assembly-line justice can be applied to an overworked, inadequately staffed court that is unsympathetic and considered to be unfair to criminal defendants.

A program wherein indigent clients (people lacking money), charged with crimes, may have defense attorneys appointed for them: In the assigned counsel system, the defense attorneys may be private attorneys who agree to be rotated to perform such services for a low rate of reimbursement (payment) from the city, county, or state.