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Maine Criminal Law Concepts
420 legal terms defined by Maine statute, each with its verbatim statutory definition.
A
- Abuse
- Access
- Acted
- Actor
- Adjudicatory hearing
- Administration of criminal justice
- Administration of juvenile justice
- Adult
- Adult probation supervisor
- Adulterated
- Adverse result
- Advertisement
- Affidavit warrant
- Alcohol and drug program
- Alcohol level
- Alias name
- Allowable expense
- Alternative name
- Animal
- Animal care facility
- Animal control
- Animal control officer
- Animal shelter
- Another jurisdiction
- Another state
- Antique firearm
- Applicant
- Application
- Armed with a dangerous weapon
- Assigned justice or judge
- At large
- Attendant
- Authority
- Authorized payment card user
- Automated sales suppression device
B
C
- Calf raised for veal
- Catastrophe
- Chronological immaturity
- Close relation
- Cocaine
- CODIS
- Collateral source
- Commercial fishing activity
- Commercial fishing operation
- Commissioner
- Commit
- Committee
- Communication common carrier
- Complete written instrument
- Compulsion
- Computer
- Computer information
- Computer network
- Computer program
- Computer resource
- Computer software
- Computer system
- Computer virus
- Concurrent sentence
- Conditional release
- Confidential criminal history record information
- Confidential juvenile history record information
- Consecutive sentence
- Consent
- Constable
- Consumer fireworks
- Contempt warrant
- Contest of chance
- Corrections officer
- Corrections supervisor
- Course of conduct
- Court-generated information
- Covered animal
- Crime
- Crime bailable as of right preconviction
- Crime bailable only as a matter of discretion preconviction
- Crime involving domestic violence
- Crime lab
- Criminal history record information
- Criminal judgment
- Criminal justice agency
- Criminal process
- Critical infrastructure
- Critical investigation expense
- Cultivate
D
- Damage
- Data storage device
- Dating partner
- Dating partners
- Deadly force
- Deception
- Demand
- Department
- Dependent
- Dependent person
- Dependent's economic loss
- Dependent's replacement loss
- Detention
- Diagnostic evaluation
- Digital signature
- Discharge
- Disclosure
- Disposition
- Dispositional hearing
- Disseminate
- Dissemination
- Distribute
- DNA
- DNA analysis
- DNA record
- DNA sample
- Dog
- Domestic entity
- Domicile
- Drugs
- Dwelling place
E
- Economic abuse
- Economic loss
- Electronic cash register
- Electronic communication service
- Electronic communication service provider
- Electronic signature
- Element of the crime
- Eligible criminal conviction
- Emancipation
- Emergency responder
- Emotional distress
- Enclosure
- Endanger
- Engages a person for prostitution
- Entity
- Environmental clean-up expense
- Equine facility
- Established property line
- Excessive alcohol level
- Excluded crime
- Executive authority
- Executive order
- Exhibit
- Expense of an emergency response
- Explosives
- Express authorization
- Extended period
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
- Maine State Police wanted database
- Maine telecommunications and routing operations system
- Marijuana
- Material
- Matter
- Mental disease or defect
- Mental illness
- Mental retardation
- Mentally disordered offender
- Methamphetamine catalyst
- Methamphetamine precursor
- Methamphetamine precursor drug
- Methamphetamine reagent
- Methamphetamine solvent
- Military protective order
- Minor
- Mislabeled
- Motor vehicle
- Municipality
- Mutilate
- Mutuel
N
O
P
- Parent
- Party official
- Patient
- Payment card
- Payroll processor
- Pecuniary benefit
- Penal institutions
- Penobscot Nation
- Person responsible for the minor
- Pet shop
- Phantom-ware
- Photograph
- Placeholder name
- Player
- Poison
- Post-conviction
- Post-sentencing proceeding
- Preconviction
- Prescription drug
- Private place
- Probation
- Probation violation warrant
- Promotes prostitution
- Properly served
- Property
- Property loss
- Prostitution
- Protected person
- Provider
- Pseudonym
- Psychiatrist
- Public agency
- Public criminal history record information
- Public easement
- Public juvenile history record information
- Public place
- Public servant
- Public utility system
- Public water source
- Public water system
R
S
- Safe children zone
- Safe zone
- Scanning device
- Sealed record
- Secure detention facility
- Self-induced intoxication
- Sell
- Seller
- Sending state
- Sentence
- Sentence of imprisonment
- Serious bodily injury
- Serious inconvenience
- Service dog
- Service dog kept for breeding purposes
- Service dog kept prior to training
- Services
- Sex offense
- Sexual act
- Sexual assault counselor
- Sexual contact
- Sexual touching
- Sexually explicit conduct
- Sexually violent offense
- Shelter
- Signal
- Social media
- Something of value
- Sow during gestation
- Split sentence
- Spouse
- State DNA data bank
- State DNA data base
- State institution
- State of nudity
- Statewide warrant management system
- Statute
- Structure
- Superintendent
- Support obligor
- Support order
- Suspension
T
- Temporary holding resource
- Temporary supervision
- Ten-year registrant
- Terroristic intent
- Tier I offense
- Tier I registrant
- Tier II offense
- Tier II registrant
- Tier III offense
- Tier III registrant
- Timber harvesting
- Toxin
- Transaction
- Transaction data
- Transaction report
- Transfer
- Transport officer
- Tribe
- Turning around freely