Jail

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JAIL - A place of confinement for persons awaiting trial and for persons sentenced to shorter terms of confinement for misdemeanors.

JAIL. A prison; a place appointed by law for the detention of prisoners. A jail is an inhabited dwelling-house within the statute of New York, which makes the malicious burning of an inhabited dwelling-house to be arson. 8 John.

COUNTY JAIL VS. STATE PRISON: The county jail is run locally: shorter sentences are served at it. Offenders who are to serve sentences longer than a year are sent to the state prison.

To confine in jail.
Independent Executor
A special kind of executor, permitted by the laws of certain states, who perfoms the duties of an executor without intervention by the court.

(1) death;
(2) jail or prison;
(3) fine;
(4) being removed from office;
(5) being unable to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit. (See public offense.) ...

"... bail is not jail. (B)ail is what an accused person seeks in order to stay out of jail.

Imprisonment in a jail or penitentiary.
Incompetent:
One who lacks the ability, legal qualification or fitness to manage his or her own affairs.

The "sanction" of a crime refers to the actual punishment, usually expressed as a fine or jail term.

Or, if the mayor takes it upon himself or herself to act as a judge and jury, directing the local police chief to put people in jail at his or her command, ...

Imprisonment The act of confining someone in a jail or prison. Intermittent Sentence A sentence consisting of periods of imprisonment interrupted by periods of probation.

Popularly, "sentence" refers to the jail or prison time ordered after conviction, as in "his sentence was 10 years in prison." Technically, a sentence includes all fines, community service, restitution or other punishment, or terms of probation.

the period a criminal defendant has been in jail, often while awaiting bail or awaiting trial. Often a judge will give a defendant "credit for time served," particularly when sentencing for misdemeanors.

Determinate Sentence A jail or prison sentence that is definite and not subject to review by a parole board or other agency.

" A prisoner files a petition for writ of habeas corpus in order to challenge the authority of the prison or jail warden to continue to hold him.

WORK RELEASE - A probation program (alternative to jail sentence) that is available in some jurisdictions wherein the defendant is permitted to maintain employment while residing in jail when not at work.

The money paid to the court, usually at arraignment or shortly thereafter, to ensure that an arrested person who is released from jail will show up at all required court appearances.

Incarceration: Imprisonment in a jail or penitentiary.
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A misdemeanor is a crime for which the punishment is usually a fine and/or up to one year in a county jail. Often a crime which is a misdemeanor for the first offense becomes a felony for repeated offenses.

concurrent sentence - Sentence under which two or more prison or jail terms are served simultaneously, and the prisoner is entitled to discharge when the longest term specified expires (i.e.

: a procedure at a jail or police station following an arrest in which information about the arrest (as the time, the name of the arrested person, and the crime for which the arrest was made) is entered in the police register ...

A person released from the jail by the judge on the basis of his/her reputation, seriousness of offence, employment, financial burdens and other justified facts, without paying bail, ...

'The court concluded that the election laws should be construed to apply to an inmate confined in jail and not otherwise disenfranchised since this constituted a 'physical disability' in the sense that he was physically disabled from leaving his ...

Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was provided have created a need for more lawyers to represent the indigent.

Bind over - To hold a person for trial on bond (bail) or in jail. If the judicial official conducting a hearing finds probable cause to believe the accused committed a crime, the official will bind over the accused, ...

Those convicted of a misdemeanor are generally punished with a maximum of 6 months in a local or county jail but other possibilities may include probation, community service, and weekend imprisonment or some combination of all of those.

Incarcerate - To confine in jail.
Indeterminate sentence - A sentence of imprisonment to a specified minimum and maximum period of time, specifically authorized by statute, ...

Imprison: To place a person in jail; to restrain a person's liberty, against his will.
Improper: influence Bringing undue pressure to bear upon someone in order to get him/her to do something he/she would not ordinarily do.

commit - To send a person to prison or jail in criminal proceedings or to another institution in civil cases by authority of a court.
common law - General provisions of law existing before codification or interpretation by courts.

Incarcerate - To confine in jail.
In-Custody Arraignments (jail cases) - Arraignment while the defendant remains in jail because defendant has not been released on bond or by other means.

Incarcerate: To confine in jail.
Inadmissible: That which, under the rules of evidence, cannot be admitted or received as evidence.
In Camera: In a judge's chambers; in private.

1. A rule which allows those accused of a felony who have been in jail for 180 days and who have not yet been brought to trial, to be released on their own recognizance if they delay has not been caused by the accused or the accused’s attorney.

Incarceration - Imprisonment in a jail or penitentiary.
Incompetent - One who lacks ability, legal qualification, or fitness to manage his own affairs.

incarcerationImprisonment; confinement in a jail or penitentiary.
indemnifyTo compensate someone for a loss.
indemnityLiability shifted from one person to another.

Habeas corpus: Usually the last legal effort by a prisoner after all appeals are exhausted to challenge the authority of the prison or jail warden to continue to hold him.

a violation of law which is an offense against the state and generally punishable by some form of penalty which could include prison or jail time. Crimes are defined as serious felonies or less serious misdemeanors.

MISDEMEANOR: Crime that is punishable by less than one year in jail, such as minor theft and simple assault that does not result in substantial bodily injury.

Sentence
The punishment given to a person who has been convicted (i.e. found to be guilty) of a crime. It may be time in jail, community service, a fine, and/or a period of probation.

Crime - Conduct declared unlawful by a legislative body and for which there is a punishment of a jail or prison term, a fine or both.

incarceration Imprisonment; confinement in jail or prison.
incite To arouse, urge, or provoke, e.g., to incite a riot.

Misdemeanor: Criminal offenses less than felonies; generally those punishable by fine or imprisonment of less than 90 days in a local facility. A gross misdemeanor is a criminal offense for which an adult could be sent to jail for up to one year, ...

This is a very unusual word with two contradictory meanings. To "sanction" can mean to ratify or to approve but it can also mean to punish. The "sanction" of a crime refers to the actual punishment, usually expressed as a fine or jail term.

An order assigned by the court to prevent one spouse from doing something. Typically, this is assigned in cases where one spouse is harassing the other. If the spouse refuses to abide by the order, he or she may be arrested and end up in jail.

define "arson" as the intentional setting of a fire to a building in which people live; others include as "arson" the intentionally setting of a fire to any building. In either case, this is a very serious crime and is punishable by a long jail ...

Contempt of court can be direct (swearing at a judge or violence against a court officer) or constructive (disobeying a court order). The punishment for contempt is a fine or a brief stay in jail (i.e. overnight).
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Offenders participate for a minimum of one year, appearing before a judge twice a month to report on their progress or setbacks. If the offender does not comply with the strict terms of the program, the judge may order jail time.

Failure to pay ordered alimony can result in contempt of court citations and even jail time. The level of alimony can be determined by written agreement and submitted to the court for a stipulated order.

Many acts can subject a defendant to both civil and criminal actions. For example, a defendant who commits certain kinds of fraud may be prosecuted by the government and put in jail, and may also be sued by the victim for money damages.

Such right to counsel exists with respect to felonies; misdemeanors when the sentence is to a jail term, and to juvenile delinquency proceedings.

In either case, this is a very serious crime and is punishable by a long jail sentence. Assault The touching of another person with an intent to harm, without that person's consent. Assign To give, to transfer responsibility, to another.

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