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8 GCA § 162.10: Definitions.

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  1. Title 8: Criminal Procedure
  2. Chapter 162: Victims Immunity Act of 2004

Terms used in this Chapter mean:

(a) ‘Convicted’ includes a finding of guilt, whether or not the adjudication of guilt is stayed or executed, an unwithdrawn judicial admission of guilt or guilty plea, a no contest plea, a judgment of conviction, an adjudication as a delinquent child, or an admission to a juvenile delinquency petition;

(b) ‘Course of Criminal Conduct’ includes the acts or omissions of the perpetrator in carrying out the crime of which convicted or of a victim in resisting criminal conduct;

(c) ‘Crime’ includes an offense named in Title 9, Guam Code Annotated, or an attempt to commit any of these offenses;

(d) ‘Perpetrator’ is any person who has engaged in criminal conduct and includes a person convicted of a crime;

(e) ‘Victim’ is a person who was the object of another's criminal conduct and includes a person at the scene of an emergency who gives reasonable assistance to another person who is exposed to or has suffered grave physical harm.

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