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RECESS – a temporary adjournment of a trial or
hearing which may be very short for lunch,
overnight or for a few days.

RECIDIVIST – a person who continues to commit
criminal acts – a habitual criminal – repeater; one
who, at the time of his trial for one crime, shall
have been previously convicted by final judgment
of another crime embraced in the same title of the
Revised Penal Code.

RECLASSIFY OR REGRADING – is the act of
changing the assigned classification of matter.

RECLUSION PERPETUA – the penalty of life
imprisonment. However, the offender is eligible for
pardon after serving the penalty for thirty years.

RECOIL – the equal and opposite reaction of the gun
against the forward movement of the bullet after
explosion.

RECORD FILE TECHNIQUE – an interrogation
technique whereby the interrogator prepares a file
on the source listing all known information about
the subject. It is a method of “we know all” used in
conjunction with the record file.

RECORDING – is the reduction of information into
writing or some other form of graphical
representation and the arranging or this info into
writing or some form of graphical representation
and the arranging of this into groups of related
items.

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