Legal Lingo: Legal Lingo, List 1

“If you’ve been served with a legal subpoena and you don’t show up, the judge can have you arrested.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement

At this time, on this day, the village court was in session and packed with people, all ready to hear the criminal cases brought before the elders for judgment. The Boy Who Met a Whale

The four men were arrested and held in a Nashville Jail to await trial. In the Shadow of Liberty

“Your Honor, I would like to begin by pointing out that Jeremy Tyler has never been in trouble with the law before,” his lawyer began. Red Kayak

Our attorneys had objected to our having to come to court in prison garb and we had won the right to wear our own clothes. Long Walk to Freedom

But I started to feel that the defense counsel wasn’t doing his job. Twelve Angry Men

White gathered enough evidence to convict the former warden, who became prisoner No. 24207 in the same penitentiary. Killers of the Flower Moon

The chief witness for the prosecution was a white girl. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel

The story starts when Jean Valjean is released from prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age

He was brought to the square, forced to plead guilty to his crime, and sentenced to a whipping to be carried out immediately. Catching Fire

When the state offered a settlement in the Moss case, Karen Gievers suggested to the Courters that they accept it on my behalf and continue mediations in the other two actions, which they did. Three Little Words: A Memoir

Judge Tate overruled the objection and allowed the photographs into evidence, which meant they must be shown to the jury. In Cold Blood

"Okay," he announced, "here's the deal. We plead guilty to one charge of conspiracy to distribute and they drop the rest. They want to make it simple." Hole in My Life

“That’s not how it works. Both sides get to make a case. Attorneys are telling the jury why they’re right and the other side is wrong.” A Good Kind of Trouble

After the two weeks, we appeared for our preparatory examination on December 19 at the Drill Hall in Johannesburg, a military structure not normally used as a court of justice. Long Walk to Freedom

The governor rejected Nichols’s final appeal, saying, “Let the law take its course.” Killers of the Flower Moon

We filed a motion opposing bail because he’d shown that he was a threat. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

She also knew that her mother’s name did not appear on the deed for the family farm, even though she had provided the money for the down payment. Votes for Women!

The Liberal landowners, who had supported the revolution in the beginning, had made secret alliances with the Conservative landowners in order to stop the revision of property titles. One Hundred Years of Solitude

He wanted to appeal no matter how unlikely the prospects, but his lawyer filed no brief. Just Mercy