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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A person who has received two previous convictions on seperate felony charges. Such a person will be adjudged a habitual criminal and may be punishable by imprisionment in the state prison for life.
Statute
'Ex Rel'
due process
Habitual criminal
2. Private office or room of a judge
noxious substance
1st Amendment trial
chambers
3rd Amendment
3. The felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another from his/her person or immediate presence and against his/her will - accomplished by means of force or fear.
1st amendment
5th Amendment
Race
robbery
4. Vehicle not designed to haul persons or property. O LESS THAN 40FT IN LENGTH.
writ
embezzlement
discovery
Special mobile equipment
5. The questioning of witnesses in a trial or in the taking of a deposition by the party opposed to the one who produced the witness
Fraud
Capias
robbery
cross examination
6. A highway that has PREFENTIAL RIGHT OF WAY in an intersection
5th Amendment
bail
misfeasance
Through highway
7. Speedy trial - Public trial - Unbiased jury - Knowledge of accusation/charge - Cross examine witnesses - obtain witnesses - Representation by an attorney
10th Amendment
amicus curiae
6th Amendment
3rd Amendment
8. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another
School crossing zone
Right of way
default
verdict
9. Detailed list of articles of assests containing a designation or description of each specific article.
20ft
Inventory
voir dire
Park or parking
10. One of the lanes on the freeway
Freeway main lane
necessarily included offenses
state's evidence
Mistake of law
11. Sheriff
Mistake of law
Traffic
Daytime
Conservator Of Peace
12. The omission to do something which a reasonable person - guided by ordinary considerations - would do; or the doing of something with a reasonable and prudent person would not do.
negligence
ordinance
Exclusionary Rule
Levy
13. Portion of the highway - other than the shoulder.
5th Amendment Trial
Roadway
Truck
Statute
14. Is used to recover possession of rental property.
crime
Inadmissible
noxious substance
Writ of possesion
15. Original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors of which exclusive original jurisdiction is not given to teh justice court - and shall not exceed $500.
1st amendment
best evidence
bail bond
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
16. Land next to and even including a highway - if it is used for business purposes. Area described as being 600ft segment - has at least 300 ft of it along the highway set up for businesses
Indigent/Pauper
1st Amendment trial
Business district
recognizance
17. The name of a writ which issues from a court of superior jurisdiction - directed to an inferior court - commanding the performance of a particular act.
Injuction
mandamus
synergism
commutation
18. A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury
Sidewalk
bailiff
'Ex Rel'
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
19. A Person who recieves personal property from another as a bailment.
Bailee
Right of way
Residence district
chambers
20. A legal document (process) signed by a judicial officer commanding a witness to appear and testify at a specific time and place
Commercial Motor vehicle
assault
Roadway
subpoena
21. An article of personal property as distinguished from from real property.
10th Amendment
interrogatories
'Prima Face'
Chattel
22. Endorsement by an officer upon a process stating what - where - when - why - how - and whom service and compliance of the commands within the process were made.
cause
Freeway
Return
transcript
23. Temporary seizure or setting aside of specific to wich a party to a suit has claim of ownership.
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
rout
Sequestration
Petition
24. Written questions propounded by one party and served on an adversary - who must provide answers thereto under oath.
interrogatories
expunge
Sequestration
crime
25. No force quarterly of soldiers - permitted only in war time and in accordance with the law.
indictment
Capias
Laned roadway
3rd Amendment
26. A public offense or wrong that is forbidden by law
Flammable liquid
Motor Vehicle Searches
Class 'B' dl
crime
27. A public disorder or uprising. To constitute a riot - the object need not be unlawful - provided the acts are done in a manner calculated to inspire terror. The chief element in a riot is the use of force or violence to disturb public peace if accomp
riot
Truck tractor
'Ex Rel'
due process
28. One who knowingly - voluntarily and with common intent with a principal offender - unites in the commission of a crime
'Ex Rel'
accomplice
extenuation circumstances
6th Amendment
29. One who - under the direction of a law enforcement officer or upon his/her own initiative - pretends complicity in a crime in order to detect the perpetrator in an effort to prosecute such perpetrator. as such - there is no criminal intent on the par
synergism
Flashing yellow light
feigned accomplice
Commitment
30. And the following one or ones.
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31. A deadly weapon; a long - heavy club usually carried by a law enforcement officer.
School crossing zone
brief
nightstick
cause
32. A person 'advances prostitution' when - acting other than as a prostitute or as a patron thereof - he/she knowingly causes or aids a person to engage in prostitution - procures or solicits patrons for prostitution - provides persons or promises for p
Truck tractor
Improved shoulder
Open fields
advancing prostitution
33. Person who swears to an affidavit or statement
corroboration evidence
certiorari
Affiant
default
34. To collect - gather - take up - seize - or execute on monies - real - or personal property under a lwfully issued writ.
Bus
Gross combination weight rating
Levy
arraignment
35. The particular county - city - or geographic area in which a court with jurisdiction may hear and determine a case
Malfeasance
Business district
venue
commutation
36. Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it
corroboration evidence
6th Amendment trial
extenuation circumstances
Conservator Of Peace
37. Document filed by the plantiff with the clerk of the court that outlines the basis of the complaint - against the defendant.
Traffic
Flammable liquid
Bailee
Petition
38. An obligation - before a court - to do a specific thing or incur a penalty of some kind; in lieu of bond - one is entrusted to appear before the court at a later date.
School crossing zone
recognizance
no bill
cross examination
39. Offense that is an intentional or knowing violation of a law committed by a public servant while acting in an official capacity as a public servant.
deposition
best evidence
probable cause
Official Misconduct
40. Unlawfully obtaining property from another by threat. the threat - regardless of its nature must induce an 'oppressive condition or circumstance;' e.g. - threatening to inflict injury - or to accuse - or to expose a secret that tends to subject a per
extortion - theft by
state's evidence
Petition
negligence
41. A motor vehicle used primarily as a farm implement.
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
1st Amendment trial
Class 'B' dl
Farm Tractor
42. Against A Thing.
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43. A suitor who - on account of poverty - is allowed to sue or defend without being chargable with cost
chambers
voir dire
Indigent/Pauper
burglary
44. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a traffic control device thats on the side of the road?
recognizance
fair preponderance
30ft
dactyloscopy
45. In Re Gault
School crossing zone
fence
'Et Al'
6th Amendment trial
46. The false making or material altering - with intent to defraud - of any writing which - if genuine - might be the foundation of a legal liability
Freeway main lane
bail bond
forgery
'Et Seq'
47. To release a person arrested or imprisoned - on security being taken - for his/her appearance in court on a specified day and place.
Business district
Bus
bail
parole
48. Rubbish - refuse - waste material - offal - paper - glass - cans - bottles - trash - debris - or any foreign substance of whatever kind or description and whether or not it is of value.
Litter
riot
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
Indigent/Pauper
49. The removal of a suit begun in one county or district to another for trial or from one court to another in the same county or district
injunction
Crosswalk
Chattel
change of venue
50. A pleading usually used by defendants in criminal cases - which literally means 'I will not contest it'.
cause
nolo contendere
Traffic
nightstick