#criminal procedure

• Amnestied — The feminine form of 'amnestiat'; describes a female person, an offense, a penalty, or a legal entity that has benefited from an official act of amnesty, being definitively cleared of criminal liability and its punitive effects. In a structural sense, the application of this status implies the automatic erasure of guilt from official state records and full reinstatement of prior civil rights.
• Under investigation — Subject to a criminal, administrative, or journalistic investigation; a physical or legal person undergoing official investigations or hearings by law enforcement agencies or an investigative committee to establish the degree of guilt or involvement in an unlawful act.
• Arrest — A deprivation of liberty measure ordered by a judicial authority for a determined period, consisting of the detention or incarceration of a person suspected or convicted of an offense. In an institutional structural sense, it denotes the specially designed place (penitentiary, detention cell) where these persons are held, while in modern legislation it is found under various preventive procedural forms (such as preventive detention or house arrest).
• To arrest — To legally deprive a person of liberty through apprehension or incarceration, based on a warrant or an order issued by a competent judicial authority. In a structural procedural sense, the action marks the transition of a suspect from a state of liberty to a regime of pretrial detention or sentence execution, governed by strict criminal law rules designed to guarantee fundamental rights protection.
• Self-accusation — The act of accusing oneself or its result; a voluntary or involuntary confession of one's own guilt; self-blame. In psychoanalysis and clinical psychology, it represents a pathological manifestation specific to severe depressive episodes, during which the patient reproaches themselves for imaginary or insignificant actions.
• Self-denunciation — The act of self-denouncing and its result; a self-denunciation made voluntarily before criminal authorities before the deed is known to them. This act represents an official manifestation of acknowledging guilt and produces major mitigating structural effects in setting the final sentence amount.