Admonishment or Admonition 

The law authorizes the trial judge to excuse individual jurors from service for various reasons. If an attorney wants to have a particular juror excused from service, the attorney must use a “challeng [..]

Cases that involve the law of civil or private rights, as opposed to criminal or administrative law; often involving matters of property and/or money. 

One or more lawyers who represent a client. 

A case in which the State prosecutes an individual for allegedly committing a crime. 

A person charged with a crime in a criminal case or the party being sued in a civil case. 

A party’s duty to introduce enough evidence on an issue to have the issue decided by the fact-finder (jury, in many cases).

The act of carefully considering issues and options before making a decision or taking some action.

A judgment entered on the order of a trial judge who takes over the fact-finding role of the jury because the evidence is so compelling that only one decision can reasonably follow.

Something (including testimony, documents and tangible objects) that tends to prove or disprove the existence of an alleged fact.