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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another
battery
malice
8th Amendment
Return
2. One of the lanes on the freeway
Freeway main lane
Park or parking
venue
Trailer
3. 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.
mandamus
tort
discovery
expert evidence
4. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
arraignment
robbery
chambers
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
5. Area between the boundary lines/ right of way lines of a publicly maintained way - which is open to vehicular travel.
expert evidence
Malfeasance
Highway or street
Laned roadway
6. Unoccupied -Undeveloped -Uncultivated
best evidence
chambers
Open fields
Commitment
7. Private office or room of a judge
subpoena
Truck tractor
prosecutor
chambers
8. 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
noxious substance
due process
commutation
Pleadings
9. A pleading usually used by defendants in criminal cases - which literally means 'I will not contest it'.
4th Amendment
Commitment
Roadway
nolo contendere
10. 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.
bail bond
Habitual criminal
amicus curiae
14th Amendment
11. Paved Shoulder
6th Amendment trial
felony
Pro Bono
Improved shoulder
12. Any substance capable of generating offensive - noxious - or suffocating fumes - gasses - or vapors.
burglary
expert evidence
Fraud
noxious substance
13. One who knowingly - voluntarily and with common intent with a principal offender - unites in the commission of a crime
expert evidence
Default Judgement
accomplice
Farm Tractor
14. A legislative enactment by a municipality (e.g.' local curfew - parking violations); a local law as opposed to a state statute.
ordinance
Residence district
Race
Class 'B' dl
15. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
Commitment
Truck
Traffic control signal
14th Amendment
16. Liquid that has a flash point of not more than 70 degrees
search warrant
15ft
principles
Flammable liquid
17. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
Fraud
allegation
embezzlement
chambers
18. When an attorney works for client for no fee.
demur
Capias
14th Amendment
Pro Bono
19. 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.
Trailer
Litter
Commitment
robbery
20. 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
Freeway
9th Amendment
Licencse Ineligibility
change of venue
21. Circumstances which render a crime less aggravated - heinous - or reprehensible than it would otherwise be
magistrate
Traffic
Shoulder
extenuation circumstances
22. The challenge which the prosecution or defense may use to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning cause.
venue
peremptory challenge
Residence district
'Et Ux'
23. The practical application of the scientific study of fingerprint comparisons and the classification of prints
Freeway
self-defense
dactyloscopy
Shoulder
24. From 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise.
Nighttime
4th Amendment trial
voir dire
change of venue
25. That which - under the established rules of evidence - cannot be admitted or received into a court of law.
feigned accomplice
certiorari
Residence district
Inadmissible
26. A legislative enactment by a federal or state body of legislators - more frequently referred to as 'a law'
Statute
synergism
self-defense
bail
27. Area in roadway designaaed for exclusive pedestrian use. Mus have signage or markings
Safety Zone
Right of way
Parties
Habitual criminal
28. Citation issued after the original ciation usually directed to the sheriff or another county or directed to the defendant under another.
Bailee
Alias Citation
deposition
noxious substance
29. 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
testimony
Commitment
Petition
accessory
30. The predominate appeal of the matter taken as a whole is to a prurient interest in sexual conduct involving minors.
condemnation
8th Amendment
Obscene
4th Amendment trial
31. Sufficent to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebuted.
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32. Steet not primarily used for hrought traffic - that provides access to building or lots
dactyloscopy
Crosswalk
allegation
Alley
33. An unlawful attempt - coupled with a present ability - to commit a violent injury on the person of another
motive
Bicycle
assault
venue
34. 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
Injuction
self-defense
Farm Tractor
Business district
35. From 1/2 hour before sunrise - to 1/2 hour after sunset
double jeopardy
Daytime
Flammable liquid
expert evidence
36. Any sign - signal - marking - or device that is placed lawfully and is used to regulate - warn - or guide traffic
Official traffic control device
motive
Affiant
adjudication
37. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
Obscene
instruction
adjudication
Right of way
38. Place any type of litter on or in land/water
Petition
Malfeasance
expert evidence
Dispose or dump
39. Primary evidence - as distinguished from secondary evidence; the best and highest evidence of which the nature of the case is susceptible
extortion - theft by
directed verdict
best evidence
bailiff
40. Citizens of each state are also - citizens of the U.S. state governments must adhere to the U.S. Constitution.
Bus
injunction
14th Amendment
expunge
41. To hold on bail for trial
felony
interrogatories
bind over
accessory
42. 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
Laned roadway
prosecutor
default
5th Amendment
43. A preportory stage to a riot. A rout is necessary for a riot to occur. When a lawful assembly begins to move towards the execution of an unlawful propose - but before any acts of violence or disorder occur - a rout has been committed.
'In Rem'
Class 'B' dl
false arrest
rout
44. The commission of some act which is prohibited by law.
parole
1st amendment
Malfeasance
demur
45. 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.
Injuction
necessarily included offenses
Commercial Motor vehicle
Alias Citation
46. A person 'advances prostitution' when - acting other than as a prostitute or as a patron thereof - he/she knowingly causes or aids a person to engage in prostitution - procures or solicits patrons for prostitution - provides persons or promises for p
advancing prostitution
Traffic control signal
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
Sequestration
47. 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
cross examination
double jeopardy
discovery
Limitation
48. A 'person' that direct the operation of one or more vehicles that haul people or cargo.
Motor carrier
Freeway main lane
misfeasance
6th Amendment
49. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
Truck
burglary
Pleadings
preponderance of evidence
50. And the following one or ones.
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