A practice to target individuals of a certain race for enforcement rather than on the grounds of actual suspicion. Frequently used in reference to law enforcement, sometimes in civil lawsuits regarding establishments that may stop certain ethnicities for questioning, search or investigation of potential wrongdoing such as shoplifting solely based upon race rather than through … [Read more...] about RACIAL PROFILING
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RAINMAKER
A lawyer who brings in many new paying clients for the law firm; he makes the rain happen. … [Read more...] about RAINMAKER
RACISM
Bias, prejudice against those who are of a certain race or ethnicity. … [Read more...] about RACISM
RAISE
To create. A use may be raised; i.e., a use may be created. Also to infer; to create or bring to light by construction or interpretation. Raise a presumption. To give occasion or ground for a' presumption; to be of such a character, or to be attended with such circumstances, as to justify an inference or presumption of law. Thus, a person's silence, in some instances, will … [Read more...] about RAISE
RACK
An engine of torture anciently used in the inquisitorial method of examining persons charged with crime, the office of which was to break the limbs or dislocate the joints. … [Read more...] about RACK