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Legal Rights and Responsibilities: A Comprehensive Guide

Discover key legal terms and concepts including due process, double jeopardy, and eminent domain. Learn about your rights and stay informed about important legal principles that shape our society.

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Legal Rights and Responsibilities: A Comprehensive Guide

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  1. Vocabulary #6 • 1. domicile – A person’s permanent • residence. • 2. double jeopardy – Trying a person twice for the same not guilty offense. This is a violation of the Constitution.

  2. 3. due process – The idea that every person accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial with fair procedure. • 4. Durham Rule –If a person was mentally defective at the time of a crime then he/she cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions.

  3. 5. duress – Coercion , threats • 6. eighth amendment – “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishment inflicted.” • 7. emancipate – To set free.

  4. 8. embezzle – taking of money or property by a person to whom it has been entrusted. • 9. eminent domain – A right in government to take property for public use, upon payment or just compensation. • 10. entrapment – an act by law enforcement to persuade a person to commit a crime that the person would not otherwise commit.

  5. 11. equal protection – The idea that the law should apply in the same way to all persons affected by it. • 12. equitable – Just ; Fair. • 13. Escobedo Rule – The right to have a lawyer present while being questioned by the police.

  6. 14. euthanasia – The act of painlessly putting to death a person suffering a painful and incurable disease. • 15. evidence – Facts that establish proof.

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