3. Court process

  

 

Charge - a formal police statement saying that someone is accused of a crime;

 

Plea bargain - an ​agreement to ​allow someone ​accused of a ​crime to ​admit to being ​guilty of a less ​serious ​crime, in ​order to ​avoid being ​tried for the more ​serious one;

 

Sentence - a punishment that a judge gives to someone who has committed a crime;

 

Acquit - if someone is acquitted of a crime, a court of law decides that they are not guilty;

 

Pre-trial hearing - ​happening in or ​involving the ​period before a ​trial ​begins,a meeting in a law court before the trial;

 

Suppress - to prevent information from being known;

 

Mistrial - a ​trial that cannot be ​completed or whose ​result has no ​legal ​value, usually because a ​legal ​mistake has been made;

 

Oath - a formal promise;

 

Protocol - the rules about what you must do and how you must behave in official or very formal situations;

 

Perjury - the crime of telling a lie in a court of law.