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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A written or printed document prepared by counsel to file in court - usually setting forth both facts and law in support of the case
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
brief
battery
instruction
2. 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
Inventory
Sidewalk
self-defense
accomplice
3. Duran v. City of Douglas - Az
4th Amendment
instruction
1st Amendment trial
Ethnicity
4. A misdeed or trespass. The improper performance of some act which a person may lawfully do.
misfeasance
domicile
Roadway
peremptory challenge
5. Is used to recover possession of rental property.
directed verdict
Exclusionary Rule
Litter
Writ of possesion
6. An intentional perversion of truth; deceitful practice or device resorted to with intent to deprive another of property or other right - or in some manner to do him/her injury.
commutation
Nighttime
6th amendment
Fraud
7. 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
felony
Official traffic control device
synergism
Traffic
8. Is a order signed by a proper magistrate directing a sheriff to recieve and place in jail.
condemnation
cause
allegation
Commitment
9. And other persons. -Commonly used to include anyone associated the named defendant in reference to the matter before he court.
10. Oral or written statements made to the court presenting the claims and defenses of the parites
Commercial Motor vehicle
Pleadings
Safety Zone
extenuation circumstances
11. Strip of land next to the highway - at least 300 ft long - that is improved and used primarily for residences.
incompetent evidence
prosecutor
feigned accomplice
Residence district
12. Testimony given in relation to some scientific - technical - or professional matter by experts; i.e. - persons qualified to speak authoritatively by reason of their special training - skill - or familiarity with the subject
Dispose or dump
expert evidence
'Ex Rel'
Class 'A' dl
13. 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
venue
accomplice
extortion - theft by
bail
14. Any sign - signal - marking - or device that is placed lawfully and is used to regulate - warn - or guide traffic
Official traffic control device
Urban district
Litter
Right of way
15. Any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another
principles
misfeasance
Injuction
battery
16. A motor vehicle used primarily as a farm implement.
Default Judgement
Business district
Parties
Farm Tractor
17. To release a person arrested or imprisoned - on security being taken - for his/her appearance in court on a specified day and place.
bail
domicile
transcript
Laned roadway
18. Detailed list of articles of assests containing a designation or description of each specific article.
adjudication
Inventory
necessarily included offenses
state's evidence
19. Decayable waste (animal/vegetable) - Non-decayable/solid waste that consist of boxes -rubber - plastic - metal - etc.
Litter
Alley
false arrest
Affiant
20. Place any type of litter on or in land/water
Capias
'In Rem'
2nd Amendment
Dispose or dump
21. The predominate appeal of the matter taken as a whole is to a prurient interest in sexual conduct involving minors.
brief
mistrial
nightstick
Obscene
22. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
Ethnicity
injunction
Alley
fair preponderance
23. From 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise.
Statute
Nighttime
rebuttal
cross examination
24. The persons who are actively concerned in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.
4th Amendment trial
Parties
dactyloscopy
3rd Amendment
25. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of crosswalk at an intersection?
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
principles
polygraph
20ft
26. Primary evidence - as distinguished from secondary evidence; the best and highest evidence of which the nature of the case is susceptible
double jeopardy
best evidence
search warrant
ordinance
27. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
15ft
opinion evidence
probable cause
Litter
28. 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
extenuation circumstances
riot
Fraud
Libel
29. A legislative enactment by a municipality (e.g.' local curfew - parking violations); a local law as opposed to a state statute.
testimony
discovery
Nighttime
ordinance
30. An order in writing - issued by a justice or magistrate - in the name of the state - directing an officer to search a specified house or other premise. Usually required as a condition before a legal search and seizure.
bail
Roadway
mistrial
search warrant
31. Vehicle with or withour power - designes to be drwan and to transport persons or property: Constructed so that NO PART OF ITS WEIGHT AND LOAD RESTS ON THE MOTOR VEHICLE.
Bus
incompetent evidence
plaintiff
Trailer
32. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another
3rd Amendment
best evidence
'Et Al'
Right of way
33. Right to an attorney during criminal proceedingis What amendment
extenuation circumstances
6th amendment
subpoena
forgery
34. A person who brings an action; the party who complains or sues in a personal action and is so named on the record.
Urban district
Bus
plaintiff
polygraph
35. A pleading usually used by defendants in criminal cases - which literally means 'I will not contest it'.
Licencse Ineligibility
prosecutor
nolo contendere
Writ of possesion
36. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
Special mobile equipment
Motion
Obscene
nightstick
37. A decision or order of the court. a final decree is one which fully and finally disposes of the litigation; an interlocutory decree is a provisional or preliminary decree which is not final.
discovery
forgery
decree
adjudication
38. Miranda v. Arizona
verdict
chambers
plaintiff
5th Amendment Trial
39. Right to bail - Protection from excessive fines - No cruel of unusual punishment
Park or parking
8th Amendment
Indigent/Pauper
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
40. 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.
no bill
Residence district
ordinance
nightstick
41. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree; also the judgment given.
adjudication
14th Amendment
burglary
6th Amendment
42. 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
allegation
Business district
necessarily included offenses
tort
43. 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
writ of possesion (Eviction)
instruction
'In Rem'
feigned accomplice
44. The particular county - city - or geographic area in which a court with jurisdiction may hear and determine a case
Through highway
venue
Park or parking
accessory
45. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
Contempt
Truck tractor
6th Amendment
Licencse Ineligibility
46. Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it
principles
corroboration evidence
fair preponderance
Inadmissible
47. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
Chattel
double jeopardy
'Et Ux'
Truck
48. Against A Thing.
49. In Re Gault
6th Amendment trial
robbery
negligence
extortion - theft by
50. Unoccupied -Undeveloped -Uncultivated
dactyloscopy
Residence district
discovery
Open fields