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Police Legal Vocab
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1. The persons who are actively concerned in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.
Petition
Flashing yellow light
Official traffic control device
Parties
2. One of the lanes on the freeway
Freeway main lane
directed verdict
accessory
noxious substance
3. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a fire hydrate?
15ft
condemnation
6th amendment
decree
4. Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it
Commitment
8th Amendment
'Et Ux'
corroboration evidence
5. To collect - gather - take up - seize - or execute on monies - real - or personal property under a lwfully issued writ.
Levy
Motion
6th amendment
Habitual criminal
6. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
injunction
Park or parking
Alley
self-defense
7. 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
forgery
change of venue
Commitment
due process
8. When an attorney works for client for no fee.
Safety Zone
discovery
Pro Bono
Highway or street
9. Is an affimative defense
Mistake of law
bind over
bailiff
Court of Criminal Appeals
10. 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.
14th Amendment
6th amendment
negligence
Inadmissible
11. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
Crosswalk
injunction
extradition
Parties
12. Testimony - given by an accomplice or participant in a crime - tending to convict others.
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13. An instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or attorney.
Freeway main lane
Conservator Of Peace
change of venue
power of attorney
14. 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
cause
power of attorney
false arrest
15. Probable cause to search vehicle (Carroll v. U.S)
Motor Vehicle Searches
parole
bind over
decree
16. Human power that has 2 wheel. It has to have at lease one wheel tat is a min. of 14' in.
Bicycle
Default Judgement
corroboration evidence
necessarily included offenses
17. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
Motion
opinion evidence
brief
Pro Bono
18. Evidence of what the witness thinks or believes in regard to facts in dispute - as distinguished from his/her personal knowledge of the facts; not admissible except (under certain limitations) in the case of experts.
Truck tractor
opinion evidence
bind over
9th Amendment
19. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a traffic control device thats on the side of the road?
20ft
demur
30ft
battery
20. The predominate appeal of the matter taken as a whole is to a prurient interest in sexual conduct involving minors.
false arrest
'Et Al'
Obscene
parole
21. Original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors of which exclusive original jurisdiction is not given to teh justice court - and shall not exceed $500.
opinion evidence
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
Farm Tractor
double jeopardy
22. Roadway that is divided into at least 2 clearly marked lanes.
Motion
Laned roadway
Dispose or dump
plaintiff
23. The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser degree - as from death to life imprisonment
extortion - theft by
injunction
polygraph
commutation
24. An injury or wrong committed - either with or without force - to the person or property of another
Licencse Ineligibility
Freeway main lane
tort
embezzlement
25. Reduced speed zone to facilitate children going to and from school.
Litter
brief
fence
School crossing zone
26. Unoccupied -Undeveloped -Uncultivated
felony
bail
Open fields
School Crossing guard
27. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
probable cause
bind over
prosecutor
transcript
28. A written or printed document prepared by counsel to file in court - usually setting forth both facts and law in support of the case
allegation
Motor carrier
brief
rebuttal
29. An obligation signed by the accused - with his/her sureties - to secure his/her presence in court
demur
Urban district
crime
bail bond
30. Any substance capable of generating offensive - noxious - or suffocating fumes - gasses - or vapors.
noxious substance
Injuction
change of venue
mandamus
31. 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
interrogatories
motive
Alias Citation
injunction
32. Allows a landlord who prevails in an eviction suit to regain possession of the premises that were in dispute.
writ of possesion (Eviction)
Truck tractor
ordinance
indictment
33. An article of personal property as distinguished from from real property.
parole
Mistake of law
Chattel
opinion evidence
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.
Roadway
Statute
'In Rem'
necessarily included offenses
35. A crime of a graver nature than a misdemeanor. generally - an offense punishable by death or imprisonment in a penitentiary
5th Amendment Trial
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
Mistake of law
felony
36. That which - under the established rules of evidence - cannot be admitted or received into a court of law.
School Crossing guard
Nighttime
no bill
Inadmissible
37. The false making or material altering - with intent to defraud - of any writing which - if genuine - might be the foundation of a legal liability
accomplice
expunge
forgery
parole
38. Testimony given in relation to some scientific - technical - or professional matter by experts; i.e. - persons qualified to speak authoritatively by reason of their special training - skill - or familiarity with the subject
mistrial
expert evidence
extradition
Malfeasance
39. An officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense.
2nd Amendment
parole
bail bond
magistrate
40. 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.
recognizance
advancing prostitution
nightstick
double jeopardy
41. A. Served by an sheriff or constable B. Directs defendant to deliver possession of certain property to the officer - who the delivers the property to the person the court has directed.
change of venue
cross examination
transcript
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
42. A legislative enactment by a municipality (e.g.' local curfew - parking violations); a local law as opposed to a state statute.
School Crossing guard
accomplice
ordinance
Chattel
43. A person who brings an action; the party who complains or sues in a personal action and is so named on the record.
Bus
Bailee
dactyloscopy
plaintiff
44. A public disorder or uprising. To constitute a riot - the object need not be unlawful - provided the acts are done in a manner calculated to inspire terror. The chief element in a riot is the use of force or violence to disturb public peace if accomp
double jeopardy
riot
Traffic control signal
demur
45. Against A Thing.
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46. A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury
indictment
nolo contendere
bailiff
ordinance
47. To file a pleading (called a demurrer) admitting the truth of the facts in the complaint or answer - but contending
Bailee
10th Amendment
demur
rebuttal
48. 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.
search warrant
Trailer
Habitual criminal
'Ex Rel'
49. A motor vehicle used primarily as a farm implement.
Alley
Farm Tractor
'Ex Rel'
'In Rem'
50. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
embezzlement
commutation
tort
accessory
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