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Criminal Trials
The criminal law prohibits you from doing certain things. It is illegal to murder, steal, and drive your car while drunk. Police enforce the criminal law and the courts provide a place to defend yourself against charges that you broke the law.
Not only does the criminal law make things illegal, it also places limits on trials and police investigations, searches and arrests. The police must have “probable cause” or believe that a crime has taken place in order to get a warrant, make a search, or an arrest.
Criminal trials are also part of the criminal law. All evidence at trial must prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the person accused actually did the crime. This means that from what the jury has seen and heard in court they could think up with a way that this person did not commit the crime, but that possibility is very unlikely.
The punishment for committing crimes varies from a small fine to imprisonment or death. Each crime has different ways of determining how long you will stay in jail or how much you will have to pay. Also, probation and parole are part of how the criminal law punishes people who do illegal things.
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