Crossword Puzzles
January 2024
Crossword #2
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Across
1. Plea or discounted deal
5. Detain
10. Guidelines given to a jury
11. Conditional freedom
12. Conviction _______ units
14. Describes an exoneration of a person after that person has died
17. Lethal punishment
19. Prison officer
20. Confinement that most think is cruel and unusual punishment
23. Newest category in the causes of wrongful convictions; Incentivized/threatened witnesses (2 words)
29. Defendant's answer to charges
30. Accuser
31. NYTimes bestseller "________ Cotton"
32. John Grisham's only non-fiction book, "The Innocent _____"
34. Confess
35. Type of murder that does not appear on the UCR
36. Initials for grossly inadequate representation
39. Bad cops do this with evidence or a Dieffenbachia
40. Hint or Blues
42. Not at liberty to leave
44. Host of annual wrongful conviction conference, The Innocence ______
46. Found not guilty
47. Unsolved
48. Too much or unnecessary
49. Lawyer
50. Heart or violent
51. Severe abuse; attack
53. Examine
Down
2. Facility
3. Your home if sentenced to more than a year
4. Foremost DNA expert who coined the phrase "the guilty project" when referring to DNA exposing the real perpetrator
6. Found on sleeves
7. Word that appears three times in sworn oath
8. ______ v. Maryland
9. Overturned conviction
13. Best-selling author who sits on The Innocence Project's Board of Directors
15. Lack of justice
16. Court proceeding
18. How many states have the death penalty (2 words)
21. Has a history of breaking the law
22. Magazine that featured wrongful convictions on the cover in February 2017
24. Inmate home
25. wrong-doing
26. Modify
27. Warning to keep your mouth shut
28. An amendment that requires due process
29. Prison
31. _____-conviction or _____mark
33. Reveal
35. Common no-crime offense
37. State that has the most death row exonerations
38. Conviction
41. Document that determines if laws are legal
43. Crime or opposite of defense
45. Gene used to predict behavior
49. "Be the ______ you wish to see..."
52. Lowest form of knowledge
December 2023
Crossword #1
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Across
5. Convicted in 1974, he is the longest-serving innocent inmate
7. Persuade by threat
9. Document filed to release info
11. Legal doctrine that protects government officials
12. Chicago Police Det. connected to 25 murder exonerations in 2022
13. Take back
14. 42% of wrongful convictions are convicted of _______
16. Evidence that is acceptable
17. Type of punishment that cannot be rectified
19. Facts on proof
21. Before trial examination of evidence
27. Chicago Police Sgt. who caused numerous wrongful convictions
29. Overrated commodity in our legal system
31. Funds paid by taxpayers for police/prosecutors misconduct
32. Analysis
34. Bail
37. Exists in fact but not as a matter of law
39. Informing proceedings
41. Eliminate criminal record
42. Mens rea
43. Law-making branch
44. Jury of one
45. Police misconduct
46. Request to change legal ruling
51. Source
52. Prior model
54. "To speak the truth"
55. Twelve members
57. An order for inquiring into the lawfulness of the restraint of a person who is imprisoned
58. Prosecute
59. File charges
60. They mend the grief and trauma caused by injustice: _______ Justice
Down
1. Truth of a statement
2. Common cause of wrongful convictions
3. Rule broken by prosecutors
4. Party that has the burden of proof in a criminal case
6. State with the most exonerations
8. Indirect evidence
10. Provide rewards to encourage certain behaviors or outcomes
11. True Bill
15. Type of witness
18. In exonerated cases, DNA can reveal the ____________.
20. Verbal probe
22. Au pair Louise Woodward attorney associated to the Innocence Project
23. Government Dominion
24. Court ordered written command made by the court
25. Plea that admits the evidence is sufficient to show guilt but maintains innocence
26. Tool to free the innocent
28. Law
30. For every 8.3 people executed in the US, ______ have been exonerated.
33. How you ____ can have a direct effect on our legal system
35. Willfully telling an untruth under oath
36. Judge trial
38. Evidence pointing towards innocence
40. To champion
47. State with 11 wrongful murder convictions in 2022
48. ________ murder is a type of wrongful execution.
49. "...guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be________"
50. Last words
53. County whose CIU was involved in three exonerations in Tennessee
56. Country with the highest execution rate.
(Answers to puzzle #1.)
