THE LEGAL PROCESS

A wobbler is a special class of crimes involving conduct that varies widely in its level of seriousness.

Woodson v. North Carolina (1976) is the U.S. Supreme Court case holding that North Carolina’s mandatory death penalty for individuals convicted of first-degree murder violated the Eighth Amendment. Find the full opinion: Woodson v.

Work product is material prepared in anticipation of litigation. Generally, work product is privileged, meaning it is exempt from discovery. However, there are exceptions. Work product is divided into two categories: ordinary and opinion. 

The World Court, also known as the International Court of Justice (ICJ), is the principal judiciary of the United Nations (UN) and the only international court that hears

A writ is an order issued by a legal authority with administrative or judicial powers, typically a court. In the United States, the All Writs Act authorizes the Supreme Court and all federal courts to issue “all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.” It also generally allows a justice or judge of a court that has jurisdiction to issue a writ.

Writ of attachment refers to court approved seizures of defendant property early in a case to ensure the plaintiff can receive adequate damages. In order to receive a writ of attachment, a plaintiff must meet certain requirements, and the court must ensure the defendant's due process rights are protected.

The word certiorari comes from Law Latin, meaning "to be more fully informed." A writ of certiorari orders a lower court to deliver its record in a case so that the higher court may review it. The writ of certiorari is a common law writ, which may be

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A writ of coram nobis is a writ of error issued by the court to correct errors of law in its own judgment.

A writ of coram vobis is a directive from an appellate court to a lower court to review its decision in a case due to the presence of a fact which existed during consideration of the initial case, but was missing from the record due to some fraud, duress, or other excusable error. There must not have been

A writ of error is an order requested by a party for a judge to reconsider the case.