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Washington Criminal Law Concepts
707 legal terms defined by Washington statute, each with its verbatim statutory definition.
A
- Abandonment
- Abandons
- Abduct
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Abuse of a supervisory position
- Access
- Access device
- Acted
- Actor
- Actual notice
- Adjudication
- Administer
- Admission
- Adult
- Adverse result
- Agency
- Agency with primary territorial jurisdiction
- Agent
- Aggrieved
- Aircraft
- Anticipated cost of counsel
- Antique firearm
- Applicant
- Appropriate lost or misdelivered property or services
- Arrest and fingerprint form
- Assault weapon
- Assemble
- Assessment
- Association
- Audit trail data
- Authority
- Authorized furlough
- Automated license plate reader data
- Automated license plate reader system
- Available funds
B
- Ballot counting center
- Barrel length
- Barricaded subject
- Basic living costs
- Basic necessities of life
- Beneficial interest
- Beverage crate
- Blue alert system
- Board
- Bodily injury
- Body cavity
- Body cavity search
- Buildings on the state capitol grounds
- Bump-fire stock
- Bundled transaction
- Business day
- By color or aid of deception
- Bylaws
C
- Cannabis
- Cannabis club
- Cannabis concentrates
- Cannabis processor
- Cannabis producer
- Cannabis product
- Cannabis products
- Cannabis researcher
- Cannabis retailer
- Cannabis-infused products
- Cardholder
- CBD product
- Cell site simulator device
- Certified handler
- Certified tribe
- Check
- Chemical restraint
- Chief executive
- Chief financial officer
- Chief law enforcement officer
- Child
- Child restraint system
- Chokehold
- Chronic illegal activity
- Civic center
- Civil disorder
- Claimant
- Clinical intervention specialist
- Coercion
- Coercive control
- Collateral attack
- Collegiate sport or athletic event
- Commercial mascot
- Commercial sex act
- Commercial sexual exploitation
- Commission
- Commissioner
- Commitment
- Community behavioral health agency
- Community corrections officer
- Community custody
- Community placement
- Community protection zone
- Community restitution
- Community supervision
- Community transition services
- Community-based rehabilitation
- Compact administrator
- Compacting state
- Complete written instrument
- Computer
- Conditional release
- Conducts a financial transaction
- Confinement
- Consent
- Constructive possession
- Contact
- Contraband
- Contractor
- Control
- Controlled substance
- Controlled substance analog
- Conviction
- Conviction or other disposition adverse to the subject
- Conviction record
- Correctional agency
- Counterfeit mark
- Course of conduct
- Court clerk
- Courthouse facility dog
- Covered animal
- Covered entity
- Covered offender
- Credit card
- Credit card number
- Credit card or payment card transaction
- Credit card or payment card transaction record
- Creditor
- Crime
- Crime of violence
- Crime-related prohibition
- Criminal history
- Criminal history record information
- Criminal justice agency
- Criminal process
- Criminal profiteering
- Criminal street gang
- Criminal street gang associate or member
- Criminal street gang-related offense
- Curio or relic
- Current or prospective witness
- Custodial interrogation
- Custodian
- Custody
- Customer
- Cybercrime
D
- Data
- Data network
- Data program
- Data services
- Data system
- Dating relationship
- Day fine
- Day reporting
- Deadly force
- Deadly weapon
- Dealer
- Dealer in property
- Debit card
- Debtor
- Defense attorney
- Deferred sentence
- Defrauding a public utility
- Delivering
- Department
- Dependent person
- Descendant
- Designated crisis responder
- Detachable magazine
- Detention facility
- Determinate sentence
- Developmental disabilities professional
- Developmental disability
- Digital firearm manufacturing code
- Digital signature
- Digitization
- Discharge
- Disclosing
- Dispense
- Dispenser
- Disposable earnings
- Disposable net monthly income
- Disposes of
- Disposition
- Disposition report
- Disproportionately impacted area
- Disqualifying offense
- Dissemination
- Distribute
- Distributor
- Diversion unit
- Divert
- Documentary material
- Dog guide
- Domestic violence
- Driving
- Drug
- Drug enforcement administration
- Drug offense
- Dwelling
E
- Early bird drawing
- Earned release
- Eastern Washington
- Electronic communication
- Electronic communication of prescription information
- Electronic communication service
- Electronic monitoring
- Electronic or esports event
- Electronic recording
- Electronic tracking device
- Employed
- Employee
- Encapsulating machine
- Enhanced driver's license
- Enhanced identicard
- Enhanced raffle
- Enrolled student
- Enterprise
- Entity
- Erotic material
- Erotic materials
- Escape
- Essential personal effects
- Evidence-based
- Excessive force
- Expectant parent
- Extortion
- Extortionate extension of credit
- Extortionate means
F
- Fabricated depiction
- Fabricated intimate image
- Facial covering
- Facility
- False academic credential
- Family or household member
- Family or household members
- Federal firearms dealer
- Federal firearms importer
- Federal firearms manufacturer
- Federal peace officer
- Felony
- Felony firearm offender
- Felony firearm offense
- Felony harassment offense
- Felony traffic offense
- Financial exploitation
- Financial information
- Financial information repository
- Financial institution
- Financial transaction
- Fine
- Fingerprints
- Fire or rescue agency
- Firearm
- Firefighter or rescue member
- First-time offender
- Fixed residence
- Follows
- For profit
- Forced labor
- Forcible compulsion
- Forged digital likeness
- Forged instrument
- Former witness
- Foster care
- Frail elder or vulnerable adult
- Frame or receiver
- Full hearing
- Full protection order
- Furlough
G
- Gender expression or identity
- General authority Washington law enforcement agency
- General authority Washington peace officer
- General law enforcement agency
- General law enforcement officer
- Genuine doubt as to competency
- Good faith effort to pay
- Good samaritan
- Governing body
- Governing unit
- Government
- Governmental function
- Governor
- Grant
- Great bodily harm
- Gun
H
I
- Identification document
- Identifying information
- Illegal drug
- Immature plant or clone
- Immediate family
- Immediate family member
- Immediate precursor
- Immediate threat of serious physical injury or death
- Import
- Improper use of restraint
- In the community
- In-game decision
- Incendiary device
- Income
- Incompetency
- Incomplete written instrument
- Indigent
- Indigent and able to contribute
- Individualized service plan
- Institution
- Institution of higher education
- Insurer
- Intellectual property
- Intensive supervision program
- Interested person
- Interstate commission
- Intimate areas
- Intimate image
- Intimate partner
- Intimate partners
- Investigating law enforcement agency
- Involuntary servitude
- Isomer
J
K
L
- Labor
- Lacks a fixed residence
- Large capacity magazine
- Laser
- Laser sighting system or device
- Law enforcement agency
- Law enforcement officer
- Lawful permanent resident
- Legal financial obligation
- Legend drug
- Licensed collector
- Licensed dealer
- Limited authority Washington law enforcement agency
- Limited authority Washington peace officer
- Limited liability business entity
- Liquid assets
- Live performance
- Loaded
- Local agency
- Local sanctions
- Lot
M
- Machine gun
- Maintain
- Malware
- Manager
- Manifest injustice
- Manufacture
- Married
- Material statement
- Materially false statement
- Means of identification
- Mechanical restraint
- Member
- Mental abuse
- Mental health professional
- Merchandise pallet
- Merchant
- Micromobility device
- Military equipment
- Military member
- Military service
- Minor
- Minor child
- Mobile or traveling housing facility
- Monitoring and reporting requirements
- Most serious offense
- Multiple ticket drawing
- Mutual law enforcement assistance
N
O
P
- Package
- PADT area
- Parking area
- Parole
- Partial confinement
- Pattern of criminal profiteering activity
- Pattern of criminal street gang activity
- Payment card
- Peace officer
- Pecuniary benefit
- Pen register
- Performance
- Permitted demonstration
- Person or entity
- Person with a developmental disability
- Personal electronic device
- Personal exploitation
- Personal identification
- Personal identification device
- Personal protection spray device
- Pet animal
- Petitioner
- Physical abuse
- Physical force
- Physical restraint
- Physically helpless
- Physician
- Physician assistant
- Pistol
- Place of detention
- Place of work
- Police horse
- Poppy straw
- Possesses stolen mail
- Possessing stolen property
- Possession
- Postpartum recovery
- Practitioner
- Predatory
- Pregnancy
- Premises
- Prescription
- Price
- Primary commissioning agency
- Primary function of an agency
- Prison
- Prisoner
- Private medical facility
- Private school
- Probation bond
- Proceeds
- Procure
- Product
- Production
- Professional person
- Professional sport or athletic event
- Projectile stun gun
- Properly served
- Property
- Prosecuting attorney
- Protective order
- Provider
- Public facility
- Public housing project
- Public park
- Public place
- Public school
- Public servant
- Public transit vehicle
- Publish
Q
R
- Radio frequency identification
- Reader
- Readily
- Real property
- Reasonable time
- Receive
- Received by the intended addressee
- Recidivist offense
- Recipient
- Reconnection
- Records
- Reencoder
- Refer a friend drawing
- Relative
- Release
- Remote computing service
- Remotely
- Repayment of an extension of credit
- Repeatedly
- Repetitive domestic violence offense
- Research institution
- Research-based
- Reserve officer
- Respondent
- Responsible adult
- Responsible individual
- Restitution
- Restorative justice
- Restrain
- Restraints
- Retail outlet
- Retail sale
- Retail value
- Rifle
- Risk assessment
- Risk assessment tool
- Rules
S
- Scanning device
- School
- School bus
- School bus route stop
- School employee
- Schools
- Scooter share contractor
- Scooter share program
- Screening
- Secretary
- Secure gun storage
- Self-insurance
- Selling price
- Semiautomatic
- Semiautomatic assault rifle
- Senior
- Sentence structure
- Serious harm
- Serious infraction
- Serious mental illness
- Serious offense
- Serious traffic offense
- Service
- Service animal
- Service provider
- Services
- Settlement agreement
- Settlement conference
- Sex offense
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual conduct
- Sexual contact
- Sexual intercourse
- Sexual motivation
- Sexual orientation
- Sexual penetration
- Sexually explicit act
- Sexually explicit conduct
- Shared scooter
- Shared street
- Shopping cart
- Short-barreled rifle
- Short-barreled shotgun
- Shotgun
- Signature
- Significant relationship
- Sleeping quarters
- Social equity applicant
- Social equity goals
- Social equity plan
- Social file
- Specified unlawful activity
- Spring blade knife
- Stalking
- Standard sentence range
- State agency
- State correctional institution
- State council
- Statement
- Statute
- Statutory maximum sentence
- Statutory or nonstatutory diversion agreement
- Stolen
- Stolen property
- Stop shelter
- Stranger
- Strangulation
- Strip search
- Student
- Student engagement hub
- Subscription television service
- Substance use disorder professional
- Substantial bodily harm
- Substantial emotional distress
- Suffocation
- Surety
- Surveillance
- Sworn employee
- Synthetic cannabinoid
T
- Tableting machine
- Tamper
- Tear gas
- Telecommunication device
- Telecommunication service
- Telecommunications device
- Telephone company
- Telephone record
- Temporary protection order
- Testimony
- THC concentration
- The administration of criminal justice
- Theft
- Threat
- Three-dimensional printer
- To collect an extension of credit
- To extend credit
- To sell
- Total confinement
- Totality of the circumstances
- Trade name
- Traffic
- Transfer
- Transit advertisements
- Transit authority
- Transit vehicle
- Transition training
- Transportation
- Trap and trace device
- Traveling animal act
- Treatment
- Tribal
- Tribal court
- Tribal court judge
- Tribal law
- Tribal police officer
- True value
- Trust fund taxes
- Trusted person
- Trustee
U
- Ultimate user
- Uncontrollable circumstances
- Undercover operation
- Undercover operative
- Undetectable firearm
- Unfinished frame or receiver
- Unique personal identifier number
- Unit
- Unit of local government
- Unlawful debt
- Unlawful harassment
- Unlicensed person
- Unsupervised contact
- Untraceable firearm
- Useable cannabis
- Utility
- Utility service
V
W
- Washington public assistance programs
- Washington state patrol firearms background check program
- Weapon
- West state capitol campus grounds
- Western Washington
- White hat security research
- Willfully failed to pay or to cause to be paid
- Wire communication
- Within 15 years
- Within seven years
- Without authorization
- Witness
- Words or conduct
- Work crew
- Work ethic camp
- Work release
- Written instrument
- Wrongdoing