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| Gas Chromatography | The process of determining specific chemicals in the air |
| Grand Jury | jury, often 16 to 23 in number, designated to investigate suspected crimes and official corruption, with the power to initiate criminal trial proceedings through an indictment |
| Grant | judicial decision to give relief requested. |
| Guilty | to be judged legally responsible for committing a crime. |
| Hallucination | false or distorted sensory perception without existence outside the mind of the perceiver. |
| Hearing | a proceeding held by a judge or magistrate to resolve legal issues or disputes. |
| Held to answer | ordered to stand trial as a criminal defendant following a probable cause hearing. |
| High order | a successful and complete detonation of an explosive with the entire consumption or detonation at its maximum rate of the explosive being detonated. |
| Impaneled | jurors sworn to serve in a particular trial. |
| Implosion | an inward burst, opposite of explosion. |
| Impulsive | acting without thinking, actuated by emotional or involuntary sources. |
| Indicator | visual remains at a fire scene revealing the fire's progress and action. |
| Indictment | an official charge made before a court, accusing a person of a crime. |
| Initial response area | general or specific jurisdictional boundaries for a fire departments first response to an alarm; automatic aid. |
| Insanity | serious mental disorder or derangement impairing one's ability to foresee or appreciate consequences of certain actions or be responsible for one's actions. |
| Investigating Officer | investigator selected by the prosecutor in a criminal case to assist with the prosecution during the course of a trial both in and out of the courtroom. |
| Judge | an elected or appointed public official charged with presiding over hearings and trials, handling down judgments, orders and sentences. |
| Judgement | the final legal decision of a court, including sentencing of a defendant in a criminal case. |
| Jury | a group of citizens, usually 12 in number, selected to hear evidence and decide guilt or innocence of an accused defendant in a criminal case. |
| Jury Foreperson | juror selected by other jurors to lead deliberations of the jury and sign or present verdicts in the courtroom. |
| Lawyer | a legal advisor and spokesperson trained in the law and licensed to practice it see attorney. |
| Legally impermissible remark | a comment in the courtroom that is legally prohibited during a trial. |
| Litigant | a party to a court case. |
| Magistrate | a public official, usually a judge, charged with presiding over hearings and handling down decisions. |
| Malicious | state of mind consisting of an intent to injure, vex or annoy another, or to knowingly commit an unlawful act. |
| Mental Illness | generally a disorder that involves brain pathology or severe personality disorganization. |
| Misdemeanor | a less serious crime usually punishable by no more than a year in prison. |
| Mistrial | the termination of a trial prior to its normal conclusion because of irreparable prejudicial error, jury deadlock or some other extraordinary event |
| Morbidity | associated with disease or death. Also the proportion of disease in a given location. |
| Motion | a formal request of judge by an attorney for a particular ruling or relief. |
| Mutual aid | assistance in firefighting or investigation by fire agencies, without regard for jurisdictional boundaries. |
| Neurotic | exhibiting an emotional disorder characterized by anxiety or phobia. |
| Night Terror | acute state of panic during sleep, often extending into consciousness. |
| Ninhydrine | a chemical which reacts to the amino acids in perspiration and is frequently used to develop latent prints on porous surfaces like cardboard and paper. |
| Nonflammable | material unlikely to bum when exposed to flame under most conditions. |
