1. Monster Vocab pages 59-126

2. appeal a legal step taking a case from a lower court to a higher one for review

3. affidavit a sworn statement made by someone who will not be at the trial

4. cross-examines questions a witness a second time to discredit earlier answers

5. perpetrator one who committed a criminal act

6. stoolies stool pigeons, slang for police informers

7. hostile an unfriendly or non-cooperating witness; a witness called by the other side

8. sustained allowed to stand in a court proceeding

9. overruled not allowed to stand in a court proceeding

10. leading suggesting answers to a witness during testimony

11. holding pen a place where prisoners are kept outside a courtroom

12. apprehended caught