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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. Allows a landlord who prevails in an eviction suit to regain possession of the premises that were in dispute.
Sequestration
Race
writ of possesion (Eviction)
Highway or street
2. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
burglary
Commercial Motor vehicle
Contempt
Pleadings
3. A highway that has PREFENTIAL RIGHT OF WAY in an intersection
Through highway
subpoena
Affiant
extortion - theft by
4. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of crosswalk at an intersection?
necessarily included offenses
20ft
battery
Bailee
5. Vehicle not designed to haul persons or property. O LESS THAN 40FT IN LENGTH.
accomplice
Special mobile equipment
3rd Amendment
Capias
6. Can be pedestrians - ridden or herded animals or vehicles.
3rd Amendment
Bailee
Traffic
'Prima Face'
7. 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
4th Amendment
polygraph
allegation
transcript
8. Reduced speed zone to facilitate children going to and from school.
Residence district
Laned roadway
School crossing zone
riot
9. Is an affimative defense
Trailer
Mistake of law
Official Misconduct
allegation
10. Tenn v. Garner
Contempt
burglary
4th Amendment trial
Business district
11. An injury or wrong committed - either with or without force - to the person or property of another
tort
Class 'A' dl
Flammable liquid
burglary
12. Is a order signed by a proper magistrate directing a sheriff to recieve and place in jail.
amicus curiae
extradition
cross examination
Commitment
13. 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.
riot
Affiant
Litter
rout
14. 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.
Habitual criminal
venue
negligence
no bill
15. 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
change of venue
misfeasance
Official traffic control device
16. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
'Prima Face'
Petition
nightstick
Traffic control signal
17. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
probable cause
bailiff
malice
injunction
18. A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury
recognizance
2nd Amendment
10th Amendment
bailiff
19. 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
self-defense
School Crossing guard
Traffic
prosecutor
20. Duran v. City of Douglas - Az
tort
Conservator Of Peace
subpoena
1st Amendment trial
21. The assertion - declaration - or statement of a party to an action - made in a pleading - setting out what he/she expects to prove
Dispose or dump
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
allegation
Official Misconduct
22. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
instruction
preponderance of evidence
Truck
polygraph
23. 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
crime
cause
polygraph
24. The challenge which the prosecution or defense may use to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning cause.
magistrate
Trailer
peremptory challenge
robbery
25. Document filed by the plantiff with the clerk of the court that outlines the basis of the complaint - against the defendant.
Exclusionary Rule
robbery
Alley
Petition
26. In practice - the formal and unanimous decision or finding made by a jury - reported to the court - and accepted by it.
Limitation
Special mobile equipment
verdict
Habitual criminal
27. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a traffic control device thats on the side of the road?
Contempt
30ft
Urban district
Daytime
28. A crime of a graver nature than a misdemeanor. generally - an offense punishable by death or imprisonment in a penitentiary
fair preponderance
felony
decree
Commercial Motor vehicle
29. Right to bail - Protection from excessive fines - No cruel of unusual punishment
Residence district
8th Amendment
transcript
bail bond
30. Detailed list of articles of assests containing a designation or description of each specific article.
incompetent evidence
Inventory
mandamus
3rd Amendment
31. A method of defamation expressed by print - writing - pictures - or signs. In its most general sense - any publication that is injurious to the reputation of another.
Laned roadway
Malfeasance
negligence
Libel
32. Circumstances which render a crime less aggravated - heinous - or reprehensible than it would otherwise be
extenuation circumstances
Levy
Libel
bailiff
33. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's liberty - whether in prison or in custody
Frisk
false arrest
Shoulder
adjudication
34. When an attorney works for client for no fee.
Right of way
Habitual criminal
incompetent evidence
Pro Bono
35. This phrase - endorsed by a grand jury on an indictment - is equivalent to 'not found' or 'not a true bill'. It means that - in the opinion of the jury - evidence was insufficient to warrant the return of a formal charge.
no bill
Contempt
Alley
Improved shoulder
36. 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
arraignment
6th amendment
venue
advancing prostitution
37. And the following one or ones.
38. 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.
10th Amendment
rebuttal
default
Court of Criminal Appeals
39. Any motor vehicle accident occurring entirely at a place other than on a highway.
probable cause
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
Truck tractor
'Prima Face'
40. The act of physically destroying files - records - or information; for example - upon judicial order
Commercial Motor vehicle
corroboration evidence
Pro Bono
expunge
41. The entering of a private or restricted premise with the intent to commit grand theft - petty theft - or a felony
negligence
tort
burglary
testimony
42. 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
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
Limitation
extortion - theft by
ordinance
43. The particular county - city - or geographic area in which a court with jurisdiction may hear and determine a case
nightstick
injunction
venue
burglary
44. The release of a person from a penal institution prior to expiration of the maximum period of imprisonment; a conditional release from prison subject to return upon violation.
parole
embezzlement
bailiff
14th Amendment
45. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
domicile
Malfeasance
20ft
Official traffic control device
46. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
Urban district
embezzlement
Traffic
discovery
47. A 'person' that direct the operation of one or more vehicles that haul people or cargo.
dactyloscopy
corroboration evidence
Motor carrier
9th Amendment
48. 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.
decree
Indigent/Pauper
subpoena
forgery
49. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree; also the judgment given.
adjudication
dissent
'In Rem'
cause
50. A motor vehicle designed to carry more than 10 or motor vehicle other than a cab
extradition
Farm Tractor
Bailee
Bus