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silent record

understanding of his or her rights (as in entering a plea of guilty or waiving the right to counsel)

special prosecutor

regular prosecutor is unable or unqualified to prosecute or for other reasons does not prosecute see also independent counsel

sui generis

generis [Latin, of its own kind] : constituting a class alone : unique or particular to itself [the lawyer's…ad that makes no distinction among various legal and factual nuances in each sui generis case has the potential

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Stradling v. Stiles

argument in banco, published in Martinus Scribelrus's works. It is, in part, the work of Fortescue, an eminent lawyer who subsequently became a baron of the Exchequer.

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