LAWS 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Conditional Sentence, Sexual Assault, Dangerous Offender
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Police officers are at the scene, there could be hand cuffs involved. Figure printed and photographed at police station: have to ability to release, or have the ability to custody. You can take into custody to the end of the case, usually with more serious crimes: after these 2, then here you have you first contact a legal council, such as a lawyer. Then you decided when to go to trial or before going to the trail you guilt plea (admit that you are guilty. After trail, you are then guilt or guilty: not guilty = you go home and go on with your life, guilty = then the next stage is sentencing (receive consequences) Sentencing (mini trial) is the process the individual goes through. Punishment is the actually consequences of the crime given by a judge (e. g. go to jail, fine, etc: maximum penalty for breaking into someone"s house is a life sentence in prison available to the court.