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- Acquittal:
- Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
- A verdict of "not guilty."
- Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
- Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
- 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.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Attorney General: means the Attorney General of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703
- Authority: means the Finance Authority of Maine as established by this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A
- Chief: means the Chief of the State Police. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1611
- Child or children: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- CODIS: means the Federal Bureau of Investigation's national DNA identification index system that allows for storage and exchange of DNA records submitted by state and local forensic DNA laboratories and is derived from the Combined DNA Index System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1572
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 801
- Communicable disease: means an illness or condition due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products which arises through transmission of that agent or its products from a reservoir to a susceptible host. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 801
- Compact officer: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703Consumer Price Index: means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, CPI-U, as compiled by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1611 Corrections officer: means a person who is responsible for the custody or direct supervision of a person confined in a jail, prison or state correctional facility pursuant to an order of a court or as a result of an arrest and who possesses a current and valid certificate issued by the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy pursuant to section 2803?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1611 Council: means the compact council established under section 1707. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Crime lab: means the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory located in Augusta. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1572 Criminal history record repository: means the state agency designated by the governor or other appropriate executive official or the legislature of a state to perform centralized recordkeeping functions for criminal history records and services in the state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Criminal history records: means information, collected by criminal justice agencies on individuals, consisting of identifiable descriptions and notations of arrests, detentions, indictments or other formal criminal charges and any disposition arising therefrom, including acquittal, sentencing, correctional supervision or release. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Criminal justice: means activities relating to the detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial release, posttrial release, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision or rehabilitation of accused persons or criminal offenders. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Criminal justice agency: includes federal and state inspector general offices. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Criminal justice services: means services provided by the FBI to criminal justice agencies in response to a request for information about a particular individual or as an update to information previously provided for criminal justice purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 801 Department of Corrections law enforcement officer: means a person who is employed by the Department of Corrections as an investigative officer, as defined in Title 34?A, section 1001, subsection 10?A, a juvenile community corrections officer, as described in Title 34?A, section 5602, or a probation officer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1611 Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial. Direct access: means access to the national identification index by computer terminal or other automated means not requiring the assistance of or intervention by another party or agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Director: means the Director of Maine Emergency Medical Services as defined in Title 32, section 83, subsection 10?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1611 DNA: means deoxyribonucleic acid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1572 DNA analysis: means DNA typing tests that derive identification information specific to a person from that person's DNA. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1572 DNA record: means DNA identification information obtained from DNA analysis and stored in the state DNA data base or CODIS. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1572 DNA sample: means a biological sample provided by a person convicted or a juvenile adjudicated of one of the offenses listed in this chapter or submitted to the crime lab for analysis pursuant to a criminal investigation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1572 Donor: The person who makes a gift. Emergency medical services person: means a person who is licensed to provide emergency medical treatment under Title 32, chapter 2?B and is serving a public or private agency in an official capacity as an officially recognized or designated employee or member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew, with or without compensation, or who is an employee of an incorporated ambulance service or nontransporting emergency medical service licensed under Title 32, chapter 2?B receiving full or partial financial support from or officially recognized by the State, a municipality or county or an entity created under Title 30?A, chapter 115 or 119 except when the emergency medical service is acting outside the scope of activities expressly authorized by the State, municipality, county or entity created under Title 30?A, chapter 115 or 119. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1611 Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts Executive order: means an order of the President of the United States or the chief executive officer of a state that has the force of law and that is promulgated in accordance with applicable law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 FBI: means the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States Department of Justice. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1572 FBI: means the Federal Bureau of Investigation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 financial assistance: means guarantees, leases, insurance, financing credits, loans or the purchase or discounts thereof, letters of credit, financing assistance payments, grants or other financial aid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A Firefighter: means an active municipal firefighter or an active volunteer firefighter, as defined in Title 30?A, section 3151. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1611 III system: includes the national indices and, to the extent of their participation in the system, the criminal history record repositories of the states and the FBI. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate. Juvenile: means any person who has not attained 18 years of age. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1572 Law enforcement officer: means an active state police officer, municipal police officer, county sheriff, deputy sheriff, game warden, an employee of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who has law enforcement powers pursuant to section 2396, subsection 7, fire marshal, judicial marshal, forest ranger, Baxter State Park ranger, a detective employed by the Office of the Attorney General pursuant to Title 5, section 202, a security officer appointed by the Commissioner of Public Safety pursuant to section 2908, a motor vehicle detective or supervisor appointed by the Secretary of State pursuant to Title 29?A, section 152, a military security police officer appointed by the Adjutant General, a University of Maine System police officer or marine patrol officer in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1611 Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. Loan: means an extension of credit made in consideration of a written promise of repayment or any other conditions that may be established by the authority, performance of which may be secured by mortgage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A Mortgage: means an agreement granting a lien upon or a security interest in eligible collateral upon certain conditions and includes, but is not limited to, a mortgage of real estate, an assignment of rents, a pledge or a security agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A National fingerprint file: means a database of fingerprints or of other uniquely personal identifying information that relates to an arrested or charged individual and that is maintained by the FBI to provide positive identification of subjects indexed in the III system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 National identification index: means an index maintained by the FBI consisting of names, identifying numbers and other descriptive information relating to subjects who have criminal history records in the III system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 National indices: means the national identification index and the national fingerprint file. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Noncriminal justice purposes: means uses of criminal history records for purposes authorized by federal or state law other than purposes relating to criminal justice activities, including employment suitability, licensing determinations, immigration and naturalization matters and national security clearances. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Nonparty state: means a state that has not ratified this compact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Notifiable disease or condition: means any communicable disease, occupational disease or environmental disease, the occurrence or suspected occurrence of which is required to be reported to the department pursuant to sections 821 to 825. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 801 Party state: means a state that has ratified this compact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Positive identification: means a determination, based upon a comparison of fingerprints or other equally reliable biometric identification techniques, that the subject of a criminal history record search is the same person as the subject of a criminal history record or records indexed in the III system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 Prescribed care: means isolation, quarantine, examination, vaccination, medical care or treatment ordered by the department or a court pursuant to section 820. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 801 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. Professional: when used with reference to office space, means professions or professionals regulated or licensed under applicable state law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A Project: means any eligible project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A Property: means animals, inanimate objects, vessels, public conveyances, buildings and all other real or personal property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 801 Public health threat: means any condition or behavior that can reasonably be expected to place others at significant risk of exposure to a toxic agent or environmental hazard or infection with a notifiable disease or condition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 801 Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide. Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant. Sealed criminal history record information: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703State: means any state, territory or possession of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1703 State DNA data bank: means the repository of DNA samples maintained by the Chief of the State Police at the crime lab collected pursuant to this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1572 State DNA data base: means the DNA identification record system administered by the Chief of the State Police. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 25 Sec. 1572 Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. Testify: Answer questions in court. User: means one or more persons acting as lessee, purchaser, mortgagor or borrower under a financial document. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A