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Offense Involved

This dimension names the criminal offense actually at issue in a specific landmark case. Wikipedia notes that a crime is "an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority," an act that in every landmark criminal case is the very thing the court is deciding on. Browsing this way collects every case that involved the same offense.

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Origin Era
1968 1
Offense Involved
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1. Forensic Linguistics (Wikipedia)
Forensic linguistics, History section
Quote, Forensic linguistics, History section
The term forensic linguistics first appeared in 1968 when Jan Svartvik, a Swedish professor of linguistics, used it in "The Evans Statements: A Case for Forensic Linguistics"
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