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Police Legal Vocab
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law
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Persons -Houses - papers - and effects from unreasonable searches and seizure - NO WARRANTS EXCEPT UPON PROBABLE CAUSE
nolo contendere
discovery
4th Amendment
cross examination
2. Person who swears to an affidavit or statement
Indigent/Pauper
Truck tractor
Class 'A' dl
Affiant
3. Sufficent to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebuted.
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4. 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.
state's evidence
Default Judgement
3rd Amendment
Trailer
5. A receiver of stolen goods. typically This is someone who receives the stolen property for sale or distribution
bail bond
fence
Nighttime
battery
6. 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
Return
Through highway
bind over
synergism
7. Common-law and constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution of the same crime - transaction - or omission
self-defense
double jeopardy
fence
robbery
8. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
Daytime
probable cause
Indigent/Pauper
chambers
9. Divided - controlled access highway
Licencse Ineligibility
forgery
embezzlement
Freeway
10. 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
plaintiff
preponderance of evidence
default
equitable action
11. 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
change of venue
interrogatories
writ
Petition
12. 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.
dactyloscopy
Official Misconduct
Urban district
Writ of possesion
13. No force quarterly of soldiers - permitted only in war time and in accordance with the law.
3rd Amendment
power of attorney
Obscene
Sequestration
14. From 1/2 hour before sunrise - to 1/2 hour after sunset
Commercial Motor vehicle
expert evidence
Daytime
necessarily included offenses
15. 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.
Park or parking
indictment
'Ex Rel'
Affiant
16. Motor vehicle used to draw another vehicle. NOT MEANT TO CARRY A LOAD - OTHER HAN PART OF THE WEIGHT OF THE OTHER VEHICLERO
Truck tractor
felony
probable cause
Open fields
17. A proceeding whereby property - money - or credits of a debtor - in possession of another (garnishee) - are applied to the debts of the debtor.
Garishment
brief
Laned roadway
Chattel
18. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal
double jeopardy
voir dire
cause
peremptory challenge
19. Shared culture and background - Shared language - religion and other culture patterns
fence
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
Ethnicity
cause
20. Human power that has 2 wheel. It has to have at lease one wheel tat is a min. of 14' in.
Bicycle
nightstick
Parties
3rd Amendment
21. Is used to recover possession of rental property.
testimony
corroboration evidence
Writ of possesion
20ft
22. That which - under the established rules of evidence - cannot be admitted or received into a court of law.
Alley
false arrest
Inadmissible
commutation
23. Endorsement by an officer upon a process stating what - where - when - why - how - and whom service and compliance of the commands within the process were made.
Return
Obscene
5th Amendment
Commercial Motor vehicle
24. Judgement entered by the court upon the failure of party to plead or appear at the appointed time.
Freeway main lane
deposition
Commercial Motor vehicle
Default Judgement
25. All persons concerned in the commission of a crime - whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense or aid in its commission or have advised and encouraged its commission - all persons counseling - advising - or encouraging children un
Freeway main lane
principles
Official Misconduct
amicus curiae
26. The protection of one's person or property against some injury attempted by another. The law of 'self-defense' justifies an act done in the reasonable belief of immediate danger. When acting in justifiable self-defense - a person may not be punished
nolo contendere
Roadway
decree
self-defense
27. To release a person arrested or imprisoned - on security being taken - for his/her appearance in court on a specified day and place.
rebuttal
Court of Criminal Appeals
bail
best evidence
28. The false making or material altering - with intent to defraud - of any writing which - if genuine - might be the foundation of a legal liability
School crossing zone
Exclusionary Rule
forgery
extenuation circumstances
29. Detailed list of articles of assests containing a designation or description of each specific article.
'Prima Face'
6th amendment
Inventory
due process
30. Against A Thing.
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31. 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
Sequestration
extortion - theft by
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
noxious substance
32. The entering of a private or restricted premise with the intent to commit grand theft - petty theft - or a felony
Petition
advancing prostitution
burglary
Motion
33. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
Flashing yellow light
domicile
30ft
Garishment
34. A Person who recieves personal property from another as a bailment.
Affiant
Bailee
deposition
Official traffic control device
35. Roadway that is divided into at least 2 clearly marked lanes.
change of venue
1st Amendment trial
deposition
Laned roadway
36. An intentional perversion of truth; deceitful practice or device resorted to with intent to deprive another of property or other right - or in some manner to do him/her injury.
Fraud
Bailee
ordinance
Class 'B' dl
37. Miranda v. Arizona
domicile
Right of way
malice
5th Amendment Trial
38. 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
recognizance
riot
Gross combination weight rating
necessarily included offenses
39. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
Motion
Roadway
Statute
crime
40. Oral or written statements made to the court presenting the claims and defenses of the parites
Pleadings
5th Amendment
Motion
Trailer
41. Rights not mention retained by people
Crosswalk
self-defense
9th Amendment
'Et Al'
42. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's liberty - whether in prison or in custody
dactyloscopy
Alley
false arrest
'Et Ux'
43. 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
Flammable liquid
injunction
Shoulder
44. A public offense or wrong that is forbidden by law
30ft
Motor carrier
demur
crime
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
Gross combination weight rating
Return
Improved shoulder
46. Go thru only with caution
negligence
Licencse Ineligibility
extenuation circumstances
Flashing yellow light
47. An instruction by the judge to the jury to return a specific verdict
instruction
due process
directed verdict
1st Amendment trial
48. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
Truck
14th Amendment
advancing prostitution
arraignment
49. Any motor vehicle accident occurring entirely at a place other than on a highway.
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
Court of Criminal Appeals
voir dire
bail
50. 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
Freeway main lane
adjudication
extortion - theft by
motive