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Criminal Law Glossary
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- Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
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- Carjacking
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- Character Evidence
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- Circumstantial Evidence
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- Crime
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- Criminal Civil Rights Violation
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- Criminal Law
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- Due Process Clause
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- Evidence
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- Exclusionary Rule
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- Expert Testimony
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- Federal Rules Of Evidence
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- Felony
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- Guilty Verdict
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- Hearsay
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- Insanity
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- M'naghten Test
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- Mens Rea
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- Misdemeanor
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- Motive
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- Murder
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- Preponderance Of The Evidence
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- Procedural
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- Prosecution
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- Public Defender
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- Reasonable Doubt
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- Reasonable Suspicion
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- Recidivism
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- Rico (Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organization Act)
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- Search And Seizure
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- Speedy Trial
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- Substantive
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- Testimony
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- Witness
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