Description

Person who brings a legal case against someone in a court of law.
A member of a jury.
The person responsible for a particular offence.
Where the person accused of a crime stands or sits.
Someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
Person who is qualified to advise people about the law and represent them in court.
A crime or mystery that the police are investigating.
A person who has been accused of breaking the law and is being tried in court.
The person who is chosen as the leader of the jury.
The person who saw the crime.
A person or a group of people charged with a crime.
The person in a court of law who decides how the law should be applied, how criminals should be punished.
In a court of law, someone's ......... is a formal statement that they make about what they saw someone do or what they know of a situation, after having promised to tell the truth.
A formal meeting in a law court, at which a judge and jury listen to evidence and decide whether a person is guilty of a crime.
Formal discussion and debate of the jury.
A wrong decision made by a court, as a result of which an innocent person is punished.
A person who has murdered someone.
A system of rules that a society or government develops in order to deal with crime, business agreements, and social relationships
A fact, argument, or piece of evidence which shows that something is definitely true or definitely exists.
The group of people who have been chosen from the general public to listen to the facts about a crime and to decide whether the person accused is guilty or not.

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What is a crossword?

Crossword puzzles have been published in newspapers and other publications since 1873. They consist of a grid of squares where the player aims to write words both horizontally and vertically.

Next to the crossword will be a series of questions or clues, which relate to the various rows or lines of boxes in the crossword. The player reads the question or clue, and tries to find a word that answers the question in the same amount of letters as there are boxes in the related crossword row or line.

Some of the words will share letters, so will need to match up with each other. The words can vary in length and complexity, as can the clues.

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