Texas Occupations Code Chapter 53 – Consequences of Criminal Conviction
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Terms Used In Texas Occupations Code Chapter 53 - Consequences of Criminal Conviction
- Allegation: something that someone says happened.
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
- Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
- 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.
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
- Swear: includes affirm. See Texas Government Code 311.005