2026 NALS/LAPSEN ALP Vocabulary Practice Exam – Complete Prep Guide

These items describe the chronological path a criminal case follows, from initial investigation all the way to sentencing. Labeling this as the order of a typical criminal trial best captures that idea, because it emphasizes the sequence in which each phase leads into the next—pretrial steps like investigation, initial appearance, preliminary hearing, arraignment, and discovery, followed by the trial itself, and finally sentencing. The other options don’t fit: closing argument is only one part of a trial, not the whole progression; the Constitution is a broad framework, not a sequence of case stages; and using a printer has no relation to criminal procedure.