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Police Legal Vocab
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1. The practical application of the scientific study of fingerprint comparisons and the classification of prints
Malfeasance
Through highway
dactyloscopy
6th amendment
2. A deadly weapon; a long - heavy club usually carried by a law enforcement officer.
nightstick
rout
Chattel
Inadmissible
3. From 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise.
domicile
Nighttime
Parties
Garishment
4. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
'In Rem'
Bailee
Motion
discovery
5. Greater weight of evidence - or evidence which is more credible and convincing to the mind - not necessarily the greater number of witnesses.
default
preponderance of evidence
demur
'Et Al'
6. 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.
'Et Seq'
3rd Amendment
Return
1st Amendment trial
7. 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
forgery
15ft
change of venue
Truck tractor
8. Motor vehicle or a combination of - hat is used to haul people or property - that -Has gross combination weight rating of 26 -001 or more - including towed unit with G.V.W.are of more than 10000 pounds - Can haul 16 or more passengerss - (including d
prosecutor
Contempt
extradition
Commercial Motor vehicle
9. Final appeallate jurisdiction in penalty cases
5th Amendment
allegation
double jeopardy
Court of Criminal Appeals
10. Any motor vehicle accident occurring entirely at a place other than on a highway.
Official traffic control device
fence
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
Traffic control signal
11. A suitor who - on account of poverty - is allowed to sue or defend without being chargable with cost
double jeopardy
Indigent/Pauper
1st Amendment trial
Licencse Ineligibility
12. Intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse.
Sidewalk
certiorari
6th Amendment
malice
13. Value specified as the loaded weight of a combination or articulated vehicle
riot
Gross combination weight rating
assault
5th Amendment
14. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a fire hydrate?
burglary
15ft
Default Judgement
5th Amendment
15. An obligation signed by the accused - with his/her sureties - to secure his/her presence in court
equitable action
negligence
Class 'B' dl
bail bond
16. Temporary seizure or setting aside of specific to wich a party to a suit has claim of ownership.
brief
Business district
Sequestration
synergism
17. Joint action of two separate drugs resulting in a total effect greater than the summed effects of both. For example - barbiturates are alcohol synergists - since the combined action of doses of alcohol and barbiturates (whoes additive effects would b
Parties
assault
necessarily included offenses
synergism
18. 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
parole
3rd Amendment
cross examination
6th Amendment
19. Place any type of litter on or in land/water
Roadway
Litter
default
Dispose or dump
20. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
Ethnicity
Traffic control signal
Truck
due process
21. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
Contempt
bailiff
Class 'A' dl
expert evidence
22. Shared culture and background - Shared language - religion and other culture patterns
Sequestration
Traffic control signal
Shoulder
Ethnicity
23. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
noxious substance
injunction
probable cause
fence
24. Written questions propounded by one party and served on an adversary - who must provide answers thereto under oath.
Gross combination weight rating
'Et Ux'
interrogatories
Alias Citation
25. An unlawful attempt - coupled with a present ability - to commit a violent injury on the person of another
assault
1st amendment
malice
Default Judgement
26. The protection of one's person or property against some injury attempted by another. The law of 'self-defense' justifies an act done in the reasonable belief of immediate danger. When acting in justifiable self-defense - a person may not be punished
assault
robbery
self-defense
Writ of possesion
27. Operate a vehicle with G.V.W.are of 26 -001 or more - Combo of vehicles 26 -001 or more towing more than 10000
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28. A proceeding whereby one party to an action may be informed as to facts known by other parties or witnesses
Ethnicity
discovery
decree
Motor carrier
29. A written or printed document prepared by counsel to file in court - usually setting forth both facts and law in support of the case
Mistake of law
search warrant
brief
fair preponderance
30. Law in its regular course of administration through the courts of justice. the guarantee of due process requires that every person have the protection of a fair trial
due process
domicile
Limitation
Petition
31. This phrase - endorsed by a grand jury on an indictment - is equivalent to 'not found' or 'not a true bill'. It means that - in the opinion of the jury - evidence was insufficient to warrant the return of a formal charge.
Official Misconduct
change of venue
no bill
Commitment
32. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree; also the judgment given.
adjudication
Race
accessory
opinion evidence
33. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
Contempt
Sidewalk
Obscene
embezzlement
34. In Re Gault
6th Amendment trial
parole
Alley
plaintiff
35. 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
cause
feigned accomplice
Dispose or dump
Pleadings
36. 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
Trailer
riot
'In Rem'
Pleadings
37. Detailed list of articles of assests containing a designation or description of each specific article.
School crossing zone
Inventory
'Et Ux'
Levy
38. The assertion - declaration - or statement of a party to an action - made in a pleading - setting out what he/she expects to prove
1st Amendment trial
allegation
advancing prostitution
search warrant
39. Area between the boundary lines/ right of way lines of a publicly maintained way - which is open to vehicular travel.
Licencse Ineligibility
Highway or street
fence
Truck tractor
40. 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.
mandamus
Habitual criminal
corroboration evidence
venue
41. Rights not mention retained by people
Farm Tractor
1st amendment
9th Amendment
extortion - theft by
42. Duran v. City of Douglas - Az
Injuction
Sequestration
1st Amendment trial
nightstick
43. Common-law and constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution of the same crime - transaction - or omission
fair preponderance
double jeopardy
Garishment
advancing prostitution
44. Person who swears to an affidavit or statement
negligence
default
noxious substance
Affiant
45. The commission of some act which is prohibited by law.
Freeway
Bus
1st amendment
Malfeasance
46. Portion of the highway - other than the shoulder.
Licencse Ineligibility
Malfeasance
Roadway
chambers
47. All persons concerned in the commission of a crime - whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense or aid in its commission or have advised and encouraged its commission - all persons counseling - advising - or encouraging children un
Special mobile equipment
Libel
principles
prosecutor
48. Persons -Houses - papers - and effects from unreasonable searches and seizure - NO WARRANTS EXCEPT UPON PROBABLE CAUSE
Business district
4th Amendment
principles
Alias Citation
49. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
instruction
School Crossing guard
probable cause
Limitation
50. A. Served by an sheriff or constable B. Directs defendant to deliver possession of certain property to the officer - who the delivers the property to the person the court has directed.
state's evidence
mistrial
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
injunction
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