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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Divided - controlled access highway
Freeway
burglary
domicile
allegation
2. Evidence sufficient to convince the triers of fact that the party who has the burden of doing so has established its cause
due process
expunge
fair preponderance
instruction
3. Any substance capable of generating offensive - noxious - or suffocating fumes - gasses - or vapors.
principles
Farm Tractor
noxious substance
verdict
4. Allows a landlord who prevails in an eviction suit to regain possession of the premises that were in dispute.
adjudication
Ethnicity
writ of possesion (Eviction)
Parties
5. 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.
Statute
Nighttime
Sequestration
opinion evidence
6. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
Parties
tort
domicile
Business district
7. Rights not mention retained by people
ordinance
directed verdict
misfeasance
9th Amendment
8. Duran v. City of Douglas - Az
misfeasance
cause
rout
1st Amendment trial
9. Oral or written statements made to the court presenting the claims and defenses of the parites
3rd Amendment
Pleadings
Farm Tractor
Right of way
10. A written or printed document prepared by counsel to file in court - usually setting forth both facts and law in support of the case
Flashing yellow light
brief
'Et Al'
forgery
11. Powers not identified belong to the states.
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
10th Amendment
indictment
recognizance
12. Intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse.
malice
Crosswalk
venue
Exclusionary Rule
13. A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury
polygraph
bailiff
Shoulder
Court of Criminal Appeals
14. When an attorney works for client for no fee.
Pro Bono
Commitment
Indigent/Pauper
8th Amendment
15. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of crosswalk at an intersection?
nolo contendere
extenuation circumstances
accessory
20ft
16. Written questions propounded by one party and served on an adversary - who must provide answers thereto under oath.
30ft
interrogatories
opinion evidence
power of attorney
17. Sufficent to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebuted.
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18. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
arraignment
mandamus
extenuation circumstances
injunction
19. A proceeding whereby property - money - or credits of a debtor - in possession of another (garnishee) - are applied to the debts of the debtor.
Garishment
Conservator Of Peace
mandamus
Affiant
20. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
Truck
Open fields
'Et Al'
Daytime
21. Human power that has 2 wheel. It has to have at lease one wheel tat is a min. of 14' in.
writ
Bicycle
prosecutor
brief
22. A term commonly used to denote the disagreement of one or more judges of a court with the decision of the majority
battery
felony
dissent
allegation
23. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another
Pleadings
tort
Right of way
testimony
24. A misdeed or trespass. The improper performance of some act which a person may lawfully do.
Conservator Of Peace
power of attorney
misfeasance
interrogatories
25. Shared culture and background - Shared language - religion and other culture patterns
Commitment
Ethnicity
directed verdict
ordinance
26. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
instruction
allegation
deposition
Commercial Motor vehicle
27. 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.
mandamus
nightstick
rebuttal
directed verdict
28. 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
'In Rem'
Limitation
prosecutor
10th Amendment
29. An article of personal property as distinguished from from real property.
Business district
Chattel
false arrest
condemnation
30. An erroneous or invalid trial; a trial which can not stand in law because of lack of jurisdiction - wrong drawing of jurors - or disregard of some other fundamental requisite.
Trailer
cause
subpoena
mistrial
31. 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.
expunge
peremptory challenge
Return
fair preponderance
32. A crime of a graver nature than a misdemeanor. generally - an offense punishable by death or imprisonment in a penitentiary
felony
cross examination
ordinance
Gross combination weight rating
33. An order or precept in writing - issued in the name of the people or of a court or judicial officer.
incompetent evidence
writ
9th Amendment
Mistake of law
34. A receiver of stolen goods. typically This is someone who receives the stolen property for sale or distribution
Flammable liquid
Residence district
fence
default
35. Speedy trial - Public trial - Unbiased jury - Knowledge of accusation/charge - Cross examine witnesses - obtain witnesses - Representation by an attorney
6th Amendment
malice
voir dire
corroboration evidence
36. 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.
Park or parking
9th Amendment
no bill
accomplice
37. From 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise.
Nighttime
incompetent evidence
ordinance
Shoulder
38. A motor vehicle used primarily as a farm implement.
polygraph
crime
Farm Tractor
Open fields
39. One of the lanes on the freeway
Freeway main lane
indictment
School Crossing guard
'In Rem'
40. To collect - gather - take up - seize - or execute on monies - real - or personal property under a lwfully issued writ.
Commercial Motor vehicle
Levy
directed verdict
Official traffic control device
41. 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
dactyloscopy
'Ex Rel'
crime
Commercial Motor vehicle
42. 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
Bailee
Conservator Of Peace
feigned accomplice
Daytime
43. 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
self-defense
Levy
Nighttime
44. An officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense.
motive
Obscene
magistrate
demur
45. 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.
arraignment
recognizance
6th Amendment
allegation
46. Roadway that is divided into at least 2 clearly marked lanes.
Laned roadway
expunge
Freeway
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
47. 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.
Default Judgement
motive
parole
Laned roadway
48. The practical application of the scientific study of fingerprint comparisons and the classification of prints
change of venue
Alias Citation
dactyloscopy
2nd Amendment
49. Decayable waste (animal/vegetable) - Non-decayable/solid waste that consist of boxes -rubber - plastic - metal - etc.
Litter
accomplice
10th Amendment
due process
50. By or on the relation of.
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