Civil Rights are those that belong to every citizen of the state, and are not connected with the organization or administration of government. They include the rights of property, marriage, protection by law, freedom to contract, trial by jury, and the like.
The definition of vindictive is someone who is out for revenge. An example of vindictive is a person who writes down every mean thing ever said to her in a notebook so she can get back at the people who were unkind.
So far, this Note has explained the accidental origins of vindictive prosecution doctrine andâperhaps as a result of those originsâthe doctrineâs failure to strike, or even seek, a balance between the practical necessity of plea bargaining and the constitutional value of the jury trial.