Ex. 4. Complete the sentences by filling in the gaps with words or phrases from the box below.
1. The number of young people who … crimes has risen sharply in recent years. 2. Another house was broken into last week. This is the third … in the area in the past month. 3. The judge … him to seven years’ … for armed robbery. 4. After twelve hours, the Jury finally reached its …, the prisoner was guilty. 5. Although the police suspected that he had been involved in the robbery, since they had no definite … there was nothing they could do about it. 6. He parked his car in the wrong place and had to pay a £20 parking …. 7. This is the fourth fire in the area recently. The police suspect …. 8. The shop decided to install closed-circuit television in an effort to combat the problem of …. 9. He was … by the police outside a pub in Soho and … with murder.
10. There are two criminal courts in Britain – the … for minor offences and the … for more serious ones. 11. A … is someone who sees a crime being committed. 12. The lawyer who prepares the case for his or her client prior to appearing in court is called a …. The lawyer who actually presents the case in court is called a …. 13. The sum of money left with a court of law so that a prisoner may be set free until his or her trial comes up is called …. 14. The bank manager admitted taking £250,000 of the bank’s money during the previous five years. He was found guilty of …. 15. The witness held the Bible in her right hand and said: “I swear by Almighty God that the … I shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” 16. The formal statement made by a witness in court is called a …. 17. If a person is …, this means that he or she is put in prison before his or her trial comes up. 18. Since it was his first offence, he was not sent to prison but put on … for 6 months. 19. At a trial, the barrister who speaks for the accused is called the counsel for the …, while the barrister who speaks against him is called the counsel for the …. B
1. Because she was a minor without a prior record, the teenager was let off with a …. 2. The US is one of the last countries in the Western world which still imposes … for murder. 3. Considering his long criminal history, the judge sentenced the thief to a 10-year …. 4. Due to good behaviour, the inmate was released on … after having served only a third of his sentence. 5. Many say that imposing a … on people who speed is an inadequate form of punishment. 6. The actor was ordered to do sixty hours of … after being arrested for fighting in a public place. 7. It is forbidden for those on … to leave their city or country of residence. 8. … is effective in that it restricts your right to do something that you normally take for granted.
A policeman was sent to (1) … the disappearance of some property from a hotel. When he arrived, he found that the hotel staff had caught a boy in one of the rooms with a camera and some cash. When the policeman tried to (2) … the boy, he became violent and the policeman had to (3) … him. At the police station the boy could not give a satisfactory explanation for his actions and the police decided to (4) … him with the (5) … of the camera and cash. They took his (6) …, locked him in a (7) …, and (8) … him overnight. The next morning he appeared in (9) … before the (10) …. He took an (11) … and (12) … not guilty. Two (13) …, the owner of the property and a member of the hotel staff, gave (14) …. After both sides of the case had been heard the boy was (15) … guilty. He had to pay a (16) … of £50 and he was given a (17) … of three months in prison suspended for two years.
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