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Police Legal Vocab
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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
expert evidence
Commercial Motor vehicle
power of attorney
domicile
2. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree; also the judgment given.
accomplice
Frisk
adjudication
5th Amendment Trial
3. An obligation signed by the accused - with his/her sureties - to secure his/her presence in court
bail bond
Litter
commutation
Truck
4. To run the hands quickly over another's person in search of weapons or contra ban; a 'pat down' search.
condemnation
Frisk
Malfeasance
tort
5. Common Ancesry and physical characteristics
Race
interrogatories
Obscene
30ft
6. Any substance capable of generating offensive - noxious - or suffocating fumes - gasses - or vapors.
demur
noxious substance
Frisk
Ethnicity
7. One of the lanes on the freeway
Freeway main lane
Habitual criminal
bail bond
3rd Amendment
8. Against A Thing.
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9. 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.
domicile
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
venue
advancing prostitution
10. 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
Race
Inventory
Garishment
11. Steet not primarily used for hrought traffic - that provides access to building or lots
Alley
Special mobile equipment
parole
Business district
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.
Business district
chambers
Official Misconduct
2nd Amendment
13. Vehicle not designed to haul persons or property. O LESS THAN 40FT IN LENGTH.
deposition
Court of Criminal Appeals
Business district
Special mobile equipment
14. 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.
Nighttime
felony
bail
indictment
15. One who - under the direction of a law enforcement officer or upon his/her own initiative - pretends complicity in a crime in order to detect the perpetrator in an effort to prosecute such perpetrator. as such - there is no criminal intent on the par
Official Misconduct
feigned accomplice
Petition
bail bond
16. The legal process by which real estate of a private owner is taken for public use without his/her consent - but upon the award and payment of just compensation
deposition
brief
condemnation
Bailee
17. Powers not identified belong to the states.
cross examination
School crossing zone
mandamus
10th Amendment
18. 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.
Bus
recognizance
Inadmissible
Class 'A' dl
19. Circumstances which render a crime less aggravated - heinous - or reprehensible than it would otherwise be
Injuction
demur
extenuation circumstances
bind over
20. Strip of land next to the highway - at least 300 ft long - that is improved and used primarily for residences.
Inventory
allegation
Residence district
parole
21. Oral or written statements made to the court presenting the claims and defenses of the parites
Inventory
synergism
Pleadings
Licencse Ineligibility
22. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
demur
Injuction
due process
instruction
23. Miranda v. Arizona
5th Amendment Trial
Writ of possesion
Garishment
4th Amendment
24. 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
Habitual criminal
Safety Zone
due process
assault
25. A term commonly used to denote the disagreement of one or more judges of a court with the decision of the majority
corroboration evidence
dissent
nolo contendere
Malfeasance
26. The false making or material altering - with intent to defraud - of any writing which - if genuine - might be the foundation of a legal liability
adjudication
forgery
Trailer
Shoulder
27. Any sign - signal - marking - or device that is placed lawfully and is used to regulate - warn - or guide traffic
discovery
School crossing zone
Official traffic control device
Dispose or dump
28. The particular county - city - or geographic area in which a court with jurisdiction may hear and determine a case
Capias
magistrate
3rd Amendment
venue
29. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of crosswalk at an intersection?
Residence district
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
subpoena
20ft
30. A legislative enactment by a federal or state body of legislators - more frequently referred to as 'a law'
fence
demur
Statute
ordinance
31. Detailed list of articles of assests containing a designation or description of each specific article.
certiorari
Inventory
extortion - theft by
bailiff
32. 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
nightstick
1st Amendment trial
Official Misconduct
33. 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
discovery
Highway or street
deposition
allegation
34. An order or precept in writing - issued in the name of the people or of a court or judicial officer.
writ
riot
fair preponderance
Obscene
35. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
4th Amendment
self-defense
arraignment
commutation
36. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's liberty - whether in prison or in custody
false arrest
writ of possesion (Eviction)
15ft
negligence
37. 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
extortion - theft by
state's evidence
Business district
Dispose or dump
38. To stand an occupied or unoccupied vehicle other than while loading or unloading
'Et Ux'
6th amendment
Park or parking
10th Amendment
39. Private office or room of a judge
mistrial
chambers
expunge
Return
40. An unlawful attempt - coupled with a present ability - to commit a violent injury on the person of another
verdict
Fraud
assault
Limitation
41. The assertion - declaration - or statement of a party to an action - made in a pleading - setting out what he/she expects to prove
bailiff
opinion evidence
allegation
6th amendment
42. 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.
necessarily included offenses
battery
opinion evidence
5th Amendment
43. The entering of a private or restricted premise with the intent to commit grand theft - petty theft - or a felony
burglary
venue
Flashing yellow light
incompetent evidence
44. Area in roadway designaaed for exclusive pedestrian use. Mus have signage or markings
Safety Zone
Court of Criminal Appeals
chambers
Exclusionary Rule
45. A Person who recieves personal property from another as a bailment.
Mistake of law
misfeasance
Bailee
brief
46. Unoccupied -Undeveloped -Uncultivated
indictment
Open fields
Commercial Motor vehicle
Writ of possesion
47. From 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise.
Nighttime
Mistake of law
Levy
Petition
48. Judgement entered by the court upon the failure of party to plead or appear at the appointed time.
Sequestration
polygraph
cause
Default Judgement
49. 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
prosecutor
Shoulder
1st Amendment trial
assault
50. A deadly weapon; a long - heavy club usually carried by a law enforcement officer.
4th Amendment
nightstick
crime
noxious substance
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