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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. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of crosswalk at an intersection?
Litter
2nd Amendment
Libel
20ft
2. A Person who recieves personal property from another as a bailment.
expert evidence
Bailee
'Prima Face'
state's evidence
3. And wife. The phrase was formely common in case names and legal documents invovling a husband and wife jointly.
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4. An instruction by the judge to the jury to return a specific verdict
directed verdict
search warrant
Contempt
double jeopardy
5. The general class or type of property taken or the reason why the offense was committed. In crimes where property is taken - the motive will be the type of property taken. The specific type of property which the thief desired to acquire might include
Default Judgement
motive
venue
Statute
6. The testimony of a witness not taken in open court - but in pursuance of authority given by statute or rule of court to take testimony elsewhere
Shoulder
riot
deposition
prosecutor
7. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
Default Judgement
cross examination
Traffic control signal
indictment
8. An action Which may be brought for the purpose of restraining the threatened infliction of wrongs or personal injuries and the prevention of threatened illegal action
accomplice
Improved shoulder
equitable action
extenuation circumstances
9. An obligation signed by the accused - with his/her sureties - to secure his/her presence in court
assault
bail bond
rebuttal
Roadway
10. Miranda v. Arizona
Open fields
best evidence
5th Amendment Trial
4th Amendment
11. Probable cause to search vehicle (Carroll v. U.S)
instruction
Motor Vehicle Searches
Crosswalk
Traffic control signal
12. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another
Right of way
transcript
battery
Official traffic control device
13. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree; also the judgment given.
verdict
2nd Amendment
rout
adjudication
14. Testimony - given by an accomplice or participant in a crime - tending to convict others.
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15. An unlawful attempt - coupled with a present ability - to commit a violent injury on the person of another
verdict
assault
forgery
due process
16. Speedy trial - Public trial - Unbiased jury - Knowledge of accusation/charge - Cross examine witnesses - obtain witnesses - Representation by an attorney
10th Amendment
6th Amendment
14th Amendment
incompetent evidence
17. Judgement entered by the court upon the failure of party to plead or appear at the appointed time.
domicile
Default Judgement
parole
ordinance
18. An officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense.
rebuttal
transcript
rout
magistrate
19. 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.
Class 'B' dl
Special mobile equipment
Injuction
Bicycle
20. Common Ancesry and physical characteristics
Race
deposition
Truck tractor
Open fields
21. Final appeallate jurisdiction in penalty cases
rebuttal
magistrate
Court of Criminal Appeals
Roadway
22. Is an affimative defense
Capias
writ
Mistake of law
opinion evidence
23. A legal document (process) signed by a judicial officer commanding a witness to appear and testify at a specific time and place
Special mobile equipment
School Crossing guard
Statute
subpoena
24. Shared culture and background - Shared language - religion and other culture patterns
Bus
assault
Indigent/Pauper
Ethnicity
25. And other persons. -Commonly used to include anyone associated the named defendant in reference to the matter before he court.
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26. Motor vehicle used to draw another vehicle. NOT MEANT TO CARRY A LOAD - OTHER HAN PART OF THE WEIGHT OF THE OTHER VEHICLERO
Truck
Truck tractor
30ft
Pro Bono
27. Detailed list of articles of assests containing a designation or description of each specific article.
Inventory
Mistake of law
Freeway
Motor Vehicle Searches
28. To hold on bail for trial
bind over
Licencse Ineligibility
6th Amendment trial
deposition
29. Document filed by the plantiff with the clerk of the court that outlines the basis of the complaint - against the defendant.
Petition
Malfeasance
6th Amendment
riot
30. An accusation in writing found and presented by a grand jury - charging that a person therein named has done some act or been guilty of some omission which - by law - is a crime.
indictment
Safety Zone
verdict
3rd Amendment
31. 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.
mistrial
Dispose or dump
incompetent evidence
decree
32. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
5th Amendment Trial
ordinance
polygraph
injunction
33. Intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse.
malice
subpoena
5th Amendment Trial
14th Amendment
34. Where an offense cannot be accomplished without necessarily committing another offense - the latter is a necessarily included offense. For example - every battery includes an assault. Murder includes manslaughter.
Urban district
default
Highway or street
necessarily included offenses
35. 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.
Return
malice
mandamus
Improved shoulder
36. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
3rd Amendment
Flashing yellow light
Bus
probable cause
37. Roadway that is divided into at least 2 clearly marked lanes.
15ft
misfeasance
Laned roadway
Litter
38. An article of personal property as distinguished from from real property.
forgery
30ft
4th Amendment
Chattel
39. Every person who - after a felony has been committed - harbors - conceals - or aids a principal in such felony - with the intent that said principal may avoid or escape from arrest - trial - conviction - or punishment - having knowledge that said pri
search warrant
accomplice
accessory
decree
40. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
Contempt
Limitation
Habitual criminal
Exclusionary Rule
41. Decayable waste (animal/vegetable) - Non-decayable/solid waste that consist of boxes -rubber - plastic - metal - etc.
domicile
'Ex Rel'
Litter
8th Amendment
42. Right to an attorney during criminal proceedingis What amendment
2nd Amendment
Bus
6th amendment
decree
43. Portion of the highway - other than the shoulder.
Right of way
venue
Roadway
Court of Criminal Appeals
44. An erroneous or invalid trial; a trial which can not stand in law because of lack of jurisdiction - wrong drawing of jurors - or disregard of some other fundamental requisite.
forgery
mistrial
Commitment
bind over
45. In Re Gault
6th Amendment trial
Parties
rout
Court of Criminal Appeals
46. Portion of a street that is in between the edge of the road and adjacent property line.
extortion - theft by
Sidewalk
School crossing zone
Trailer
47. 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
Traffic control signal
Commercial Motor vehicle
Litter
preponderance of evidence
48. Against A Thing.
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49. A highway that has PREFENTIAL RIGHT OF WAY in an intersection
domicile
amicus curiae
Court of Criminal Appeals
Through highway
50. Rights not mention retained by people
9th Amendment
bailiff
Frisk
extradition