Court Jurisdiction System-Assignment 9

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Running head: ASSIGNMENT 9
ASSIGNMENT 9
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
Author’s note:

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Question-answers
1. Attorney-client Privilege: It has referred to such a privilege between a lawyer and
his client regarding their communication. This communication should be kept
confidential with the attorney (Bryans, 2015). This Privilege only exists if there is
arisen such attorney-client relationship.
2. Bench Trial: it is a process of adjudication of criminal cases in the US where the
judges have played a role of a jury who has found the fact of the case to make a
decision or adjudication.
3. Best Evidence: It is a rule of the US justice system, and it applies when a party of the
dispute has wanted to admit a document as evidence, but such original document is
not in his hand. He should make a reasonable excuse to the court.
4. Closing Argument: It is one of the concluding statement of the counsel to the parties
to the dispute to reiterate the essential arguments to the jury (Grant, 2019).
5. Competent to Testify: It refers to testify the competency of the witness in a case.
There is no such moral or mental qualification to testify the witnesses, that is, who
can be capable of being a witness.
6. Deadlocked Jury: This is one of the jurors in the judicial system where they can not
able to agree on a verdict of the court after deliberation, as well as they are unable to
reach to the requirement of supermajority or unanimity (Abramson, 2015).
7. Death qualification of a jury: It is a category of jurors who is not strictly opposed to
such a death penalty in a criminal case but not in every criminal case.

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8. Direct Evidence: It is one type of evidence where the evidence has supported a truth
of any assertion directly without need of any other shreds of evidence.
9. Direct verdict: It is a rule of the trial judge, and it can be entertained when he thinks
that there is certainly not any lawful adequate evidentiary source for a jury for
reaching to the other conclusion.
10. DNA Testing: it is a procedure of identifying parents of a person or correlation with
the real parents (Buckleton, Bright, & Taylor, 2016). However, the court may order to
conduct a DNA test for identifying parentage of a child.
11. Eyewitness testimony: It has referred to a testimony of a person before the court who
has watched the incident in his eyes. It has used as a legal word.
12. Forensic experts: They are one type of scientists who collect, domain and analyze
various scientific evidence during an investigation. They have helped in a criminal
procedure in providing their knowledge and examination in such evidence.
13. Impeachment: It is a procedure of a legislative body to charge against any other
government official (Sunstein, 2019). It is almost same as an accusation in the law of
crime, and fundamentally, it is a declaration of charges in contradiction of the official.
14. Indirect Evidence: It is one type of evidence, which is relied on the interference of
other circumstances that are not direct. It has a great value in criminal law as
circumstantial evidence, such as fingerprint in a crime scene, DNA analysis and many
others.
15. The judgment of Acquittal: it has rested on a want or lack of evidence for such a
conviction of the defendant in a trial (Kurland, 2015). The phrase means that the court