Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 11 > Chapter 33 - Trial Jurors

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Investigating law-enforcement agency: means the law-enforcement agency which has primary jurisdiction in the area in which a missing person complaint has been filed. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 8580
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Missing senior citizen: means a person:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 8580

• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Voir dire: The process by which judges and lawyers select a petit jury from among those eligible to serve, by questioning them to determine knowledge of the facts of the case and a willingness to decide the case only on the evidence presented in court. "Voir dire" is a phrase meaning "to speak the truth."