Showing posts with label defendant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label defendant. Show all posts

Monday, June 10, 2013

confrontation (in a criminal trial)

In criminal law, placing a witness face-to-face defendant. Then the witness may identify the defendant or the defendant may may make any objection he has directly to the witness and cross-examine him.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Conflict of Laws

The body of rules that directs the choice a court makes when the court must decide whether to apply the law of one state (or a nation-state) or another to settle an issue in a case. When there is a conflict between the laws, principles called choice of law rules are applied to settle the question.