§ 7.10 Exemption from Criminal Liability Due to Juvenile\r\nStatus
§ 7.16 Defense: Mental Disease or Defect
§ 7.19 Same: Admissibility of Evidence Showing
§ 7.22 Same: Procedure for Assertion of
§ 7.25 Psychiatric Examination and Procedure
§ 7.28 Acquittal: Order for Civil Commitment
§ 7.34 Acquittal: Court Order of Commitment or Release; Petition for Discharge
§ 7.37 Mental Disease: a Bar to Proceeding or Sentence
§ 7.40 Same: Hearing to Determine
§ 7.46 Same: Commitment as Exonerating Bail
§ 7.49 Same: Hearing and Procedure When Mental Disease or Defect Occurs After Sentence
§ 7.52 Transfer of Committed Person Off-Island: Hearing and Notice to Attorney General Required
§ 7.55 Specific Defenses Defined and Allowed
§ 7.58 Intoxication
§ 7.61 Duress or Necessity
§ 7.64 Other Defenses
§ 7.67 Appropriateness of Prosecution
§ 7.70 Entrapment as Affirmative Defense
§ 7.73 Specific Defenses Defined and Allowed; Ignorance or Mistake; Intoxication; Duress, Compulsion; Consent; De Minimus Infractions; Entrapment; and Renunciation
§ 7.98 Justification in Seizure of Property
§ 7.76 Deadly Force Defined
§ 7.78 Justification a Defense; Civil Remedies Not Impaired by Article
§ 7.80 Necessity Defined and Allowed
§ 7.82 Execution of Public Duty Defined and Allowed
§ 7.84 Self-Defense Defined and Allowed
§ 7.86 Self-Defense Limited
§ 7.90 Force in Defense of Property: Defined and Allowed
§ 7.92 Use of Force in Law Enforcement
§ 7.94 Use of Force by Person Having Special Care, Duty or\r\nResponsibility for Another
§ 7.96 When Force Allowed by §§ 7
§ 7.98 v2 Justification in Seizure of Property
§ 7.111 Legislative Findings and Intent
§ 7.112 Home Protection, Use of Deadly Force, Presumption of Fear of Death or Harm
§ 7.113 Immunity from Criminal Prosecution and Civil\r\nAction
§ 7.114 Severability
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Terms Used In Guam Code > Title 9 > Chapter 7 - Exemptions and Defenses

  • Acquittal:
    1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    2. A verdict of "not guilty."
     
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • 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.
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trial jury: A group of citizens who hear the evidence presented by both sides at trial and determine the facts in dispute. Federal criminal juries consist of 12 persons. Federal civil juries consist of six persons.
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.