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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The persons who are actively concerned in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.
Bus
Frisk
Parties
Truck tractor
2. Evidence sufficient to convince the triers of fact that the party who has the burden of doing so has established its cause
Obscene
Sequestration
fair preponderance
self-defense
3. From 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise.
Nighttime
nolo contendere
Gross combination weight rating
corroboration evidence
4. The challenge which the prosecution or defense may use to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning cause.
double jeopardy
10th Amendment
peremptory challenge
magistrate
5. The predominate appeal of the matter taken as a whole is to a prurient interest in sexual conduct involving minors.
School crossing zone
injunction
Obscene
domicile
6. Freedom of religion - Freedom of speech - Freedom of the press - Freedom to peaceably assemble - Rights to grievances
Injuction
recognizance
accomplice
1st amendment
7. To hold on bail for trial
Farm Tractor
bind over
Default Judgement
tort
8. In Re Gault
8th Amendment
6th Amendment trial
fence
'Prima Face'
9. Miranda v. Arizona
5th Amendment Trial
Farm Tractor
prosecutor
'Ex Rel'
10. 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
Ethnicity
4th Amendment trial
cross examination
crime
11. 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
Contempt
rebuttal
parole
12. An obligation - before a court - to do a specific thing or incur a penalty of some kind; in lieu of bond - one is entrusted to appear before the court at a later date.
Capias
5th Amendment
tort
recognizance
13. Evidence given by a competent witness - under oath; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings and other sources
state's evidence
Traffic control signal
testimony
polygraph
14. Intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse.
probable cause
Farm Tractor
malice
prosecutor
15. The assertion - declaration - or statement of a party to an action - made in a pleading - setting out what he/she expects to prove
Commercial Motor vehicle
allegation
deposition
Court of Criminal Appeals
16. Testimony - given by an accomplice or participant in a crime - tending to convict others.
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17. A Person who recieves personal property from another as a bailment.
Bailee
Race
'Et Al'
Business district
18. A person who brings an action; the party who complains or sues in a personal action and is so named on the record.
allegation
Nighttime
plaintiff
crime
19. A suitor who - on account of poverty - is allowed to sue or defend without being chargable with cost
Indigent/Pauper
domicile
Laned roadway
peremptory challenge
20. 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.
necessarily included offenses
Libel
Residence district
arraignment
21. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's liberty - whether in prison or in custody
recognizance
false arrest
condemnation
Libel
22. Private office or room of a judge
Crosswalk
Malfeasance
6th amendment
chambers
23. 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.
'Prima Face'
School Crossing guard
Official Misconduct
principles
24. In practice - the formal and unanimous decision or finding made by a jury - reported to the court - and accepted by it.
Garishment
'Ex Rel'
magistrate
verdict
25. 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
probable cause
synergism
directed verdict
burglary
26. Allows a landlord who prevails in an eviction suit to regain possession of the premises that were in dispute.
Bailee
Open fields
misfeasance
writ of possesion (Eviction)
27. Tenn v. Garner
4th Amendment trial
condemnation
chambers
tort
28. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
6th Amendment
Motion
noxious substance
6th amendment
29. Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it
Inventory
extortion - theft by
Return
corroboration evidence
30. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal
cause
necessarily included offenses
bind over
forgery
31. Common-law and constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution of the same crime - transaction - or omission
plaintiff
double jeopardy
parole
2nd Amendment
32. 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
Class 'B' dl
extortion - theft by
Truck tractor
parole
33. The entering of a private or restricted premise with the intent to commit grand theft - petty theft - or a felony
Parties
burglary
Malfeasance
rebuttal
34. Circumstances which render a crime less aggravated - heinous - or reprehensible than it would otherwise be
transcript
negligence
14th Amendment
extenuation circumstances
35. Reduced speed zone to facilitate children going to and from school.
School crossing zone
bail
2nd Amendment
Ethnicity
36. Sufficent to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebuted.
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37. Motor vehicle used to draw another vehicle. NOT MEANT TO CARRY A LOAD - OTHER HAN PART OF THE WEIGHT OF THE OTHER VEHICLERO
directed verdict
Chattel
Inadmissible
Truck tractor
38. 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
Urban district
accessory
Bus
equitable action
39. 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
commutation
no bill
Commercial Motor vehicle
discovery
40. Any motor vehicle accident occurring entirely at a place other than on a highway.
Capias
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
double jeopardy
Injuction
41. Can be issued by a clerk of the court
Pro Bono
Indigent/Pauper
Special mobile equipment
Capias
42. From 1/2 hour before sunrise - to 1/2 hour after sunset
Daytime
1st Amendment trial
chambers
Commercial Motor vehicle
43. Paved Shoulder
Default Judgement
Frisk
Malfeasance
Improved shoulder
44. Greater weight of evidence - or evidence which is more credible and convincing to the mind - not necessarily the greater number of witnesses.
instruction
preponderance of evidence
Shoulder
best evidence
45. Is used to recover possession of rental property.
dactyloscopy
extenuation circumstances
10th Amendment
Writ of possesion
46. A written or printed document prepared by counsel to file in court - usually setting forth both facts and law in support of the case
rout
battery
brief
false arrest
47. Human power that has 2 wheel. It has to have at lease one wheel tat is a min. of 14' in.
probable cause
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
Bicycle
expunge
48. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
Return
School Crossing guard
embezzlement
Parties
49. 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.
Through highway
'Et Seq'
domicile
Habitual criminal
50. Common Ancesry and physical characteristics
Race
Flashing yellow light
Mistake of law
corroboration evidence