Movie+Vocabulary+-+Legal

To Kill a Mocking Bird To Kill A Mockingbird **Legal Vocabulary **
 * **case** - a situation and all the information about it
 * **charge** - to make a claim of wrongdoing against; accuse or blame for a crime
 * **client** – a person who pays another for work
 * **courthouse** - a building housing judicial courts; .a building housing the offices of a county government ; a county seat.
 * **defend** - to help a person blamed of a crime
 * **defendant** - the person blamed in court for a crime
 * **evidence** - what witnesses say and the things given as proof in a court of law.
 * **grand jury** – a group of persons who meet in private to decide if a person charged with a crime will be go to trial
 * **guilty** - did the crime
 * **illegal** – against the law; not permitted by law
 * **innocent** – did not do the crime
 * **jury** - a group of persons who hear a trial and decide if the defendant is guilty or innocent
 * **lawyer** - one whose job is to give legal advice and help to clients and represent them in court or in other legal matter
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**legal** - connected with the law; permitted by law
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**trial** – the legal process in court that shows the evidence to a jury who then decide if a person is guilty or innocent.