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indictment - ANSWER ✔✔A formal written statement from a grand
jury charging an individual with a crime
information - ANSWER ✔✔a formal written statement issues by a
prosecuting attorney charging a defendant with a crime
probable cause affidavit - ANSWER ✔✔written summary of salient
facts regarding a criminal investigation sworn to be the truth by usually a
police officer to support a criminal charge or search warrant
case report - ANSWER ✔✔detailed written summary of a police
officers investigation of criminal activity
,burden of proof - ANSWER ✔✔-duty or responsibility to produce
sufficient evidence on an issue or element of a crime to persuade a
judge or jury of guilt
-ALWAYS on the state (police and prosecutor)
standard of proof - ANSWER ✔✔level of certainty necessary for a
judge or jury to reach a verdict of take other action
mens rea / intent - ANSWER ✔✔the mental state of a criminal, being
disposed to commit a particular crime.
plaintiff / petitioner - ANSWER ✔✔party in the case who initiates legal
action
defendant / respondent - ANSWER ✔✔the party in a case against
whom a legal action is filed
civil or civil action - ANSWER ✔✔a legal action for which the penalty
is anything other than incarceration
criminal or criminal action - ANSWER ✔✔a legal action for which the
penalty may include incarceration
, aiding - I.C 35-41-2-4 - ANSWER ✔✔person who knowingly or
intentionally aids, induces, or causes another person to commit an
offense commits that offense, even if the other person
1. has not been prosecuted for the offense
2. has not been convicted
3. has not been acquitted of the offense
***in order for accomplice liability to attach, it isn't necessary to prove
that the defendant participated in every element of the crime
attempt - ANSWER ✔✔a person attempts to commit a crime, when
acting with the culpability required for commission of the crime, he
engages in conduct that constitutes a substantial step towards
commission of the crime. An attempt to commit a crime is a felony or
misdemeanor of the same level or class as the crime attempted
conspiracy - ANSWER ✔✔a person conspired to commit a felony
when, with intent to commit the felony, he agrees with another person to
commit the felony. A conspiracy to commit a felony is a felony of the
same class
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