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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Commercial Motor vehicle
Motion
Race
Class 'B' dl
2. Tenn v. Garner
4th Amendment trial
Statute
School Crossing guard
extenuation circumstances
3. Original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors of which exclusive original jurisdiction is not given to teh justice court - and shall not exceed $500.
Bus
preponderance of evidence
Garishment
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
4. Strip of land next to the highway - at least 300 ft long - that is improved and used primarily for residences.
2nd Amendment
arraignment
fence
Residence district
5. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of crosswalk at an intersection?
20ft
injunction
Sidewalk
decree
6. 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.
2nd Amendment
expunge
Petition
indictment
7. To hold on bail for trial
bind over
demur
Motion
Safety Zone
8. 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.
Open fields
search warrant
Residence district
riot
9. Place any type of litter on or in land/water
deposition
Dispose or dump
polygraph
Affiant
10. Right to an attorney during criminal proceedingis What amendment
Inadmissible
rebuttal
6th amendment
Obscene
11. Sufficent to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebuted.
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12. 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
'Ex Rel'
Flammable liquid
Licencse Ineligibility
extortion - theft by
13. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
Litter
Malfeasance
domicile
ordinance
14. Evidence given by a competent witness - under oath; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings and other sources
testimony
embezzlement
nolo contendere
expunge
15. Primary evidence - as distinguished from secondary evidence; the best and highest evidence of which the nature of the case is susceptible
demur
Motor Vehicle Searches
mandamus
best evidence
16. In practice - the formal and unanimous decision or finding made by a jury - reported to the court - and accepted by it.
Daytime
verdict
testimony
dactyloscopy
17. 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.
6th Amendment
Injuction
Chattel
negligence
18. Private office or room of a judge
Motion
Traffic control signal
chambers
cross examination
19. Any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another
battery
6th amendment
Daytime
Traffic
20. 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
felony
Urban district
due process
4th Amendment trial
21. The introduction of rebutting evidence; the showing that the statements of witnesses as to what occurred are not true; the stage of trial at which such evidence may be introduced.
false arrest
magistrate
Ethnicity
rebuttal
22. By or on the relation of.
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23. Shared culture and background - Shared language - religion and other culture patterns
Bicycle
Ethnicity
Bus
Nighttime
24. A 'person' that direct the operation of one or more vehicles that haul people or cargo.
Motor carrier
best evidence
Contempt
subpoena
25. Area between the boundary lines/ right of way lines of a publicly maintained way - which is open to vehicular travel.
forgery
'Prima Face'
Highway or street
motive
26. Miranda v. Arizona
5th Amendment Trial
Crosswalk
Commercial Motor vehicle
6th amendment
27. The false making or material altering - with intent to defraud - of any writing which - if genuine - might be the foundation of a legal liability
forgery
state's evidence
writ of possesion (Eviction)
arraignment
28. Portion of a street that is in between the edge of the road and adjacent property line.
Sidewalk
Open fields
assault
Highway or street
29. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
brief
Crosswalk
Pro Bono
Flashing yellow light
30. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
incompetent evidence
search warrant
injunction
14th Amendment
31. 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
Flashing yellow light
testimony
adjudication
deposition
32. Any sign - signal - marking - or device that is placed lawfully and is used to regulate - warn - or guide traffic
plaintiff
Ethnicity
Official traffic control device
change of venue
33. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
3rd Amendment
embezzlement
5th Amendment
extortion - theft by
34. 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.
commutation
bailiff
recognizance
rout
35. An unlawful attempt - coupled with a present ability - to commit a violent injury on the person of another
assault
Gross combination weight rating
15ft
principles
36. Intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse.
malice
Right of way
Through highway
Residence district
37. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
Mistake of law
Shoulder
Truck
Motor Vehicle Searches
38. To speak the truth. The phrase denoted the preliminary examination which the court may make of one presented as a witness or juror - as to his/her qualifications.
voir dire
'Et Seq'
Motion
Sidewalk
39. Duran v. City of Douglas - Az
fence
change of venue
1st Amendment trial
Capias
40. 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
2nd Amendment
14th Amendment
polygraph
8th Amendment
41. A motor vehicle used primarily as a farm implement.
Safety Zone
Farm Tractor
double jeopardy
necessarily included offenses
42. 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.
Writ of possesion
Habitual criminal
voir dire
bail bond
43. Probable cause to search vehicle (Carroll v. U.S)
arraignment
peremptory challenge
Bicycle
Motor Vehicle Searches
44. An original writ commanding judges or officers of inferior courts to certify or to return records of proceedings in a cause for judicial review
certiorari
Bailee
Ethnicity
Obscene
45. Freedom of religion - Freedom of speech - Freedom of the press - Freedom to peaceably assemble - Rights to grievances
motive
Chattel
expert evidence
1st amendment
46. A legal document (process) signed by a judicial officer commanding a witness to appear and testify at a specific time and place
Default Judgement
subpoena
synergism
burglary
47. 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.
6th Amendment
assault
decree
1st amendment
48. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
mandamus
Motion
negligence
Roadway
49. 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.
9th Amendment
negligence
directed verdict
preponderance of evidence
50. A misdeed or trespass. The improper performance of some act which a person may lawfully do.
misfeasance
Obscene
mandamus
Business district