Определите основную идею текста.

			Enforcing the law is the way to maintain order in the country.
			Enforcing the law governments expect their citizens to know the laws.
			A person’s ignorance of the law doesn’t mean that he is allowed to break it.
			The legal codes, the statutes and case judgements help the people to behave properly.

№8 Прочитайте текст и выполните задания.

Criminal Procedure 1. Criminal procedure, also called the criminal process, is the mechanism through which crimes are investigated, the guilt of criminals adjudicated, and punishment imposed. Criminal procedure makes the criminal law work. Criminal law defines what conduct is criminal and prescribes the punishment for criminal conduct. Criminal procedure aims to make sure that criminal sanctions are applied only to those who are guilty, and only through procedures that are recognized as fair. One goal of the criminal process is to punish the guilty, but other goals are to protect the innocent and to ensure that even the guilty are protected from abuse by the government. 2. The stages in criminal procedure are investigating, prosecuting, trying, deciding guilt, sentencing and carrying out the sentence. Different bodies can be given one of these jobs. For example, the police can be in charge of investigating the crime; a prosecution service of prosecuting; the judges of presiding over the trial; a jury of deciding whether to convict; an appeal court of settling whether the trial was fair; a prison service of carrying out the sentence if the suspect is convicted and sentenced to prison. 3. No one authority (police, prosecution, judge, jury, prison service) should have too much power. State powers should be sliced up, and the slices should be able to keep a check on one another. The police will not be able to prosecute unless they can persuade the prosecution service that there is a strong case. The judge will if necessary rule at the trial that the prosecution has not produced enough evidence. If the jury think the judge has shown bias during the trial they will probably acquit the suspect even though they might otherwise convicted him. If the suspect is convicted but thinks the procedure has been unfair he can persuade the government to advise the head of state to pardon him. Определите, какое утверждение соответствует содержанию текста.

			One of the bodies concerned with criminal procedure is police.
			Investigating the crime, prosecuting and trying are the jobs of the jury.
			A person who presides over the trial is known as prosecutor.
			During the trial the judges usually pay little attention to evidence.

Завершите утверждение согласно содержанию текста. One of the tasks of criminal procedure is …

			avoiding any abuse on the part of its participants
			separating powers in favor of one of the authorities
			making prosecution check the work of the other authorities
			giving the job of presiding over the trial to one of the jurors

Ответьте на вопрос: What is the role of a jury in criminal procedure?

			A jury passes a verdict «Guilty» or «Not guilty».
			A jury helps the judge to decide questions of law.
			A jury decides whether the trial was fair.
			A jury applies criminal sanctions to the guilty.