G10 4Q CI: Important terms of Section 11-22

Bail

security (cash, property, or recognizance) required by a court & given for the temporary release of a person under the custody of the law conditioned upon his appearance before any court.

Reclusion Perpetua

it is imprisonment for 20 years or more when evidence of guilt is strong (conduct a hearing).

Arraignment

copy of the complaint is being read in the language or dialect known to him, asking him whether he pleads guilty or not guilty.

Subpoena

an order that may be issued by the court to compel the attendance of witnesses in order to testify in behalf of the accused.

Writ of habeas corpus

a court order directing a person detaining another, commanding him to produce the body of the prisoner and show sufficient cause for holding in custody the person detained.

Involuntary servitude

a compulsory service of one to another.

Henious crimes

offenses that are exceedingly bad or evil or those committed with extreme cruelty as to shock the general moral sense such as rape, parricide, murder, robbery with homicide

estafa

wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain; fraud.

Double jeapordy

when a person is charged with an offense and the case is terminated by acquittal or conviction, he will be charged again with the same offense.

Ex post facto law

one which, operating retrospectively, deprives the accused of some protection or defense previously available, to their disadvantage.

Bill of Attainder

inflicts punishment without judicial trial, thus, a violation of due process of law.