CRIMINAL INSANITY – a mental state that precludes understanding of the criminal

nature of the act committed.

CRIMEN MAJESTATIS – treason
CROSS EXAMINATION – examination of a witness by an adverse party.
CROSS PROJECTION – a method of crime-scene sketching allowing for a 3
dimensional view of the scene.
CRYPTOGRAPHY – the use of simple ciphers and codes to protect the security of
messages
CYCLICAL CRIMES – offenses that occur or recur in certain patterns of regularity.
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DACTYLOSCOPY – the study of fingerprints as means of personal identification.
DEADLY WEAPON – weapon which is designed for the destruction of life or inflicting
an injury;
“A deadly weapon likely to produce death or severe bodily harm.”
DEPAUCHERY – excessive hedonistic pleasure: usually the sense of sexual
immortality or the unlawful excessive indulgence of lust in the form of sexual
activity.
DEDUCTIVE REASONING - a thinking process in which a particular inference is
drawn from a generalization in the absence of all the facts or evidence.
DEFENSE COUNSEL – an attorney who represents the defendant in a legal
proceeding.
DELIBERATELY – intentional violation of law; premeditation, intentionally, willfully;
as previously stated” in cold blood”.
DEMURRER – plea for the dismissal of a law suits in the grounds that even if the
statements of the opposition are true, they do not sustain to claim because they
bare insufficient of otherwise legally defective.
DEMOCRACY- a form of government which is directed according to the will of the
people.
DEMURRER – a denial of the defendant that the allegations of the declaration, even
if true, would legally constitute a cause for action.
DENSITY GRADIENT TECHNIQUE – a technique commonly used to compare and
analyze soil evidences.
DERISION – mockery – ridicule
DICTUM – formal statement made by the judge; a judge’s statement or opinion on
some legal point other than the principle issue of the case. Such statement is usually
utilized as illustration or argument.
DIGAMY – a valid second marriage.
DIRECT EXAMINATION – the interrogation of a witness by the party, who called him.
DISCRETION – individual judgment: wise use of one’s judgement.
DISPUTE – controversy
DISSENT – disagree
DOCTRINE OF INFORMER PREVILEGE – a legal principle recognizing that an
informer/confidential informant’s identity should not be disclosed during trial if such
disclosure would result in retaliation to the informer/confidential informant.