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Police Legal Vocab
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a fire hydrate?
15ft
Flashing yellow light
domicile
Bailee
2. An officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense.
fair preponderance
self-defense
magistrate
brief
3. Is an affimative defense
verdict
Motor carrier
voir dire
Mistake of law
4. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
burglary
Writ of possesion
Pleadings
embezzlement
5. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
parole
Truck
injunction
Daytime
6. Steet not primarily used for hrought traffic - that provides access to building or lots
Alley
burglary
Default Judgement
amicus curiae
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
no bill
change of venue
bind over
Ethnicity
8. 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.
Official Misconduct
expunge
Class 'A' dl
2nd Amendment
9. That which - under the established rules of evidence - cannot be admitted or received into a court of law.
Traffic control signal
search warrant
robbery
Inadmissible
10. 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
mandamus
double jeopardy
prosecutor
false arrest
11. Common-law and constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution of the same crime - transaction - or omission
directed verdict
adjudication
Sidewalk
double jeopardy
12. 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.
peremptory challenge
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
Trailer
Pleadings
13. A suitor who - on account of poverty - is allowed to sue or defend without being chargable with cost
arraignment
opinion evidence
Return
Indigent/Pauper
14. 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
polygraph
prosecutor
Open fields
Alias Citation
15. A legislative enactment by a federal or state body of legislators - more frequently referred to as 'a law'
best evidence
certiorari
Statute
subpoena
16. A 'person' that direct the operation of one or more vehicles that haul people or cargo.
Motor carrier
Traffic control signal
equitable action
1st amendment
17. The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser degree - as from death to life imprisonment
commutation
Alias Citation
expunge
riot
18. Evidence of what the witness thinks or believes in regard to facts in dispute - as distinguished from his/her personal knowledge of the facts; not admissible except (under certain limitations) in the case of experts.
Residence district
decree
chambers
opinion evidence
19. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
Traffic control signal
state's evidence
amicus curiae
expert evidence
20. Area in roadway designaaed for exclusive pedestrian use. Mus have signage or markings
Crosswalk
Safety Zone
Statute
Improved shoulder
21. Evidence sufficient to convince the triers of fact that the party who has the burden of doing so has established its cause
fair preponderance
burglary
Licencse Ineligibility
adjudication
22. 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.
Motor Vehicle Searches
probable cause
advancing prostitution
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
23. 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
Fraud
default
4th Amendment
feigned accomplice
24. A public offense or wrong that is forbidden by law
arraignment
crime
Traffic control signal
Bicycle
25. The commission of some act which is prohibited by law.
Malfeasance
allegation
embezzlement
mandamus
26. An instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or attorney.
arraignment
Pleadings
power of attorney
8th Amendment
27. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a traffic control device thats on the side of the road?
crime
embezzlement
30ft
14th Amendment
28. 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
default
Habitual criminal
Obscene
Class 'A' dl
29. Strip of land next to the highway - at least 300 ft long - that is improved and used primarily for residences.
Residence district
forgery
cross examination
adjudication
30. The assertion - declaration - or statement of a party to an action - made in a pleading - setting out what he/she expects to prove
Malfeasance
allegation
School Crossing guard
Traffic
31. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
extortion - theft by
Licencse Ineligibility
Contempt
Nighttime
32. Reduced speed zone to facilitate children going to and from school.
Return
Malfeasance
School crossing zone
Inadmissible
33. And wife. The phrase was formely common in case names and legal documents invovling a husband and wife jointly.
34. An injury or wrong committed - either with or without force - to the person or property of another
amicus curiae
Freeway main lane
tort
chambers
35. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
Bailee
Return
instruction
decree
36. From 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise.
decree
nightstick
subpoena
Nighttime
37. 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
venue
injunction
due process
change of venue
38. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
dactyloscopy
injunction
Nighttime
bail bond
39. Land next to and including the highway if - It's NOT IN A MUNICIPALITY AND It has HOMES OR BUSINESSES on it at intervals of less than 100ft - for at least a quarter mile
expunge
Nighttime
subpoena
Urban district
40. Value specified as the loaded weight of a combination or articulated vehicle
Gross combination weight rating
writ of possesion (Eviction)
Capias
state's evidence
41. 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
allegation
self-defense
Statute
Flammable liquid
42. Commands the person to whom it is directed to desist or refrain from the commision or continuance of the act enjoined or to obey and execute such order as the court has seen proper to issue.
Contempt
writ of possesion (Eviction)
4th Amendment trial
Injuction
43. Speedy trial - Public trial - Unbiased jury - Knowledge of accusation/charge - Cross examine witnesses - obtain witnesses - Representation by an attorney
battery
Libel
6th Amendment
peremptory challenge
44. A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury
prosecutor
Inadmissible
Crosswalk
bailiff
45. 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.
decree
Litter
5th Amendment
cross examination
46. Area between the boundary lines/ right of way lines of a publicly maintained way - which is open to vehicular travel.
directed verdict
Freeway
Highway or street
discovery
47. Citizens of each state are also - citizens of the U.S. state governments must adhere to the U.S. Constitution.
Class 'A' dl
mistrial
verdict
14th Amendment
48. A written or printed document prepared by counsel to file in court - usually setting forth both facts and law in support of the case
brief
preponderance of evidence
instruction
burglary
49. Written questions propounded by one party and served on an adversary - who must provide answers thereto under oath.
Inventory
magistrate
interrogatories
rebuttal
50. Evidence illegally obtained by police officers can-not be used against the accused in a criminal case. (Mapp v. Ohio)
Default Judgement
Bailee
bind over
Exclusionary Rule