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Police Legal Vocab

Subject : law
Instructions:
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1. By or on the relation of.

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2. Right to bail - Protection from excessive fines - No cruel of unusual punishment






3. The persons who are actively concerned in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.






4. Speedy trial - Public trial - Unbiased jury - Knowledge of accusation/charge - Cross examine witnesses - obtain witnesses - Representation by an attorney






5. Value specified as the loaded weight of a combination or articulated vehicle






6. Evidence sufficient to convince the triers of fact that the party who has the burden of doing so has established its cause






7. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal






8. Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it






9. The act of physically destroying files - records - or information; for example - upon judicial order






10. And wife. The phrase was formely common in case names and legal documents invovling a husband and wife jointly.

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11. An instrument used to record variations of several different body pulsations. The courts have not as yet agreed that the scientific principles of the polygraph - commonly called the lie detector - has crossed the line between the experimental and the






12. Evidence which is not admissible under the established rules of evidence.






13. Sheriff






14. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.






15. To stand an occupied or unoccupied vehicle other than while loading or unloading






16. And other persons. -Commonly used to include anyone associated the named defendant in reference to the matter before he court.

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17. An order or precept in writing - issued in the name of the people or of a court or judicial officer.






18. 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






19. 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






20. A 'person' that direct the operation of one or more vehicles that haul people or cargo.






21. One who initiates the prosecution upon which an accused is arrested or who offers or presents an accusation against the party whom he/she suspects to be guilty; also - one who takes charge of a case and performs the functions of a trial lawyer for th






22. 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.






23. Area between the boundary lines/ right of way lines of a publicly maintained way - which is open to vehicular travel.






24. 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.






25. The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser degree - as from death to life imprisonment






26. 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






27. A 'default' in an action of law occurs when a defendant fails to plead within the time allowed or fails to appear at the trial






28. A Person who recieves personal property from another as a bailment.






29. Testimony - given by an accomplice or participant in a crime - tending to convict others.

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30. One of the lanes on the freeway






31. The false making or material altering - with intent to defraud - of any writing which - if genuine - might be the foundation of a legal liability






32. Original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors of which exclusive original jurisdiction is not given to teh justice court - and shall not exceed $500.






33. To run the hands quickly over another's person in search of weapons or contra ban; a 'pat down' search.






34. 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.






35. The official record of proceedings in a trial or hearing






36. 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.






37. Evidence illegally obtained by police officers can-not be used against the accused in a criminal case. (Mapp v. Ohio)






38. Paved Shoulder






39. The surrender by one state to another of an individual accused or convicted of an offense outside its own territory and within the territorial jurisdiction of the other






40. The challenge which the prosecution or defense may use to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning cause.






41. Duran v. City of Douglas - Az






42. Liquid that has a flash point of not more than 70 degrees






43. 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






44. A term commonly used to denote the disagreement of one or more judges of a court with the decision of the majority






45. 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.






46. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.






47. Circumstances which render a crime less aggravated - heinous - or reprehensible than it would otherwise be






48. The practical application of the scientific study of fingerprint comparisons and the classification of prints






49. Sufficent to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebuted.

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50. 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.