In Court

Maybe we won't ever be at court... but we listen these words in films or in the news.

• lawyer = abogado
  
• defense (or counsel for the defense) = defensa (o abogado defensor)
  
• prosecutor (or counsel for the prosecution) = fiscal
  
• jury = jurado
  
• judge = juez
  
• your honor = su señoría
  
• defendant = demandado
  
• plaintiff = demandante

• court room = sala de tribunal
  
• case = caso
  
• trial = juicio
  
• open court = audiencia pública
  
• motion = moción
  
• objection = objeción
  
• sustained = sostenida
  
• overruled = denegada
  
• recess = receso
  
• veredict = veredicto
  
• sentence = sentencia, condena
  
• life inprisonment = cadena perpetua
  
• bail = libertad bajo fianza
  
• probation = libertad condicional
  
• appeal = apelación

• guilty = culpable
  
• non guilty = inocente
  
• to plead guilty = declararse culpable
  
• they found him guilty = lo encontraron/declararon culpable