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| a method of dealing with offenders guilty of minor crimes or first offenses, by allowing them to go at large under supervision of a probation officer |
| evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to others |
A legal term meaning that an accused person must be presented physically before the court with a statement demonstrating sufficient cause for arrest. Thus, no accuser may imprison someone indefinitely without bringing that person and the charges against him or her into a courtroom. In Latin, habeas corpus literally means “you shall have the body.”