AAERT CORRECT SCRIPTED ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES - ✔✔considerations which increase a sentence
imposed
✔✔MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES - ✔✔considerations which decrease a sentence
imposed
✔✔ALLOCUTION - ✔✔formal statement by convicted defendant as to whether there is
any reason why judgment should not be rendered against him
✔✔AMENDMENT - ✔✔change/correction
✔✔ANSWER - ✔✔response by defendant denying plaintiff's complaint
✔✔ARBITRATION - ✔✔dispute mediation by impartial 3rd party
✔✔ARRAIGNMENT - ✔✔bringing an accused person to court to plead a criminal
charge
✔✔ARREST - ✔✔restraint and detention of a person suspected of a crime
✔✔BAIL - ✔✔amount of money deposited as form of collateral to guarantee that a
person charged with a crime will appear in court when scheduled
✔✔BENCH CONFERENCE - ✔✔a discussion between attorneys and the judge outside
the hearing of courtroom
✔✔BENCH WARRANT - ✔✔authority to find and to bring into court someone who has
failed to appear
✔✔BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT - ✔✔standard for conviction in a criminal trial
, ✔✔PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE - ✔✔standard for winning a civil matter
✔✔BIRFUCATION - ✔✔trial of certain issues separately
✔✔BLACK LETTER LAW - ✔✔basic principles of law
✔✔BLACKS LAW DICTIONARY - ✔✔standard legal reference work
✔✔BRIEFS - ✔✔papers submitted by attorneys
✔✔BURDEN OF PROOF - ✔✔obligation to provide affirmative proof on an issue
✔✔STANDARD OF EVIDENCE - ✔✔how much evidence (or what type) is needed to
bear that burden
✔✔CALENDAR - ✔✔court schedule
✔✔CASE IN CHIEF - ✔✔primary presentation of evidence by a party
✔✔CASE LAW - ✔✔printed decisions and opinions of appellate jurisdictions
✔✔CAUSE OF ACTION - ✔✔situations causing a lawsuit
✔✔WRIT OF CERTIORARI - ✔✔appellate court order granting a hearing to an
appellant
✔✔CHAIN OF CUSTODY - ✔✔record showing proper maintenance of real evidence
✔✔CHALLENGE - ✔✔objection to having someone serve as a juror
✔✔CHAMBERS - ✔✔judges office within a court house
✔✔CHARGE TO THE JURY - ✔✔instructions from the judge concerning the law which
governs a case
✔✔CHATTEL - ✔✔an article of personal or movable property
✔✔CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL - ✔✔federal appellate level immediately below the
Supreme Court
✔✔CLASS ACTION - ✔✔suit joined in by a group of people who share a common
interest in matter
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES - ✔✔considerations which increase a sentence
imposed
✔✔MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES - ✔✔considerations which decrease a sentence
imposed
✔✔ALLOCUTION - ✔✔formal statement by convicted defendant as to whether there is
any reason why judgment should not be rendered against him
✔✔AMENDMENT - ✔✔change/correction
✔✔ANSWER - ✔✔response by defendant denying plaintiff's complaint
✔✔ARBITRATION - ✔✔dispute mediation by impartial 3rd party
✔✔ARRAIGNMENT - ✔✔bringing an accused person to court to plead a criminal
charge
✔✔ARREST - ✔✔restraint and detention of a person suspected of a crime
✔✔BAIL - ✔✔amount of money deposited as form of collateral to guarantee that a
person charged with a crime will appear in court when scheduled
✔✔BENCH CONFERENCE - ✔✔a discussion between attorneys and the judge outside
the hearing of courtroom
✔✔BENCH WARRANT - ✔✔authority to find and to bring into court someone who has
failed to appear
✔✔BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT - ✔✔standard for conviction in a criminal trial
, ✔✔PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE - ✔✔standard for winning a civil matter
✔✔BIRFUCATION - ✔✔trial of certain issues separately
✔✔BLACK LETTER LAW - ✔✔basic principles of law
✔✔BLACKS LAW DICTIONARY - ✔✔standard legal reference work
✔✔BRIEFS - ✔✔papers submitted by attorneys
✔✔BURDEN OF PROOF - ✔✔obligation to provide affirmative proof on an issue
✔✔STANDARD OF EVIDENCE - ✔✔how much evidence (or what type) is needed to
bear that burden
✔✔CALENDAR - ✔✔court schedule
✔✔CASE IN CHIEF - ✔✔primary presentation of evidence by a party
✔✔CASE LAW - ✔✔printed decisions and opinions of appellate jurisdictions
✔✔CAUSE OF ACTION - ✔✔situations causing a lawsuit
✔✔WRIT OF CERTIORARI - ✔✔appellate court order granting a hearing to an
appellant
✔✔CHAIN OF CUSTODY - ✔✔record showing proper maintenance of real evidence
✔✔CHALLENGE - ✔✔objection to having someone serve as a juror
✔✔CHAMBERS - ✔✔judges office within a court house
✔✔CHARGE TO THE JURY - ✔✔instructions from the judge concerning the law which
governs a case
✔✔CHATTEL - ✔✔an article of personal or movable property
✔✔CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL - ✔✔federal appellate level immediately below the
Supreme Court
✔✔CLASS ACTION - ✔✔suit joined in by a group of people who share a common
interest in matter
