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Police Legal Vocab
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1. A pleading usually used by defendants in criminal cases - which literally means 'I will not contest it'.
preponderance of evidence
Truck tractor
Alias Citation
nolo contendere
2. Temporary seizure or setting aside of specific to wich a party to a suit has claim of ownership.
necessarily included offenses
Frisk
Sequestration
Highway or street
3. Value specified as the loaded weight of a combination or articulated vehicle
cross examination
bail
Gross combination weight rating
equitable action
4. To speak the truth. The phrase denoted the preliminary examination which the court may make of one presented as a witness or juror - as to his/her qualifications.
Obscene
arraignment
Class 'A' dl
voir dire
5. 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.
Alley
indictment
self-defense
search warrant
6. 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
Truck
30ft
Flashing yellow light
riot
7. Freedom of religion - Freedom of speech - Freedom of the press - Freedom to peaceably assemble - Rights to grievances
Through highway
1st amendment
instruction
decree
8. Right to bail - Protection from excessive fines - No cruel of unusual punishment
embezzlement
8th Amendment
Malfeasance
battery
9. 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.
Traffic control signal
Habitual criminal
battery
Improved shoulder
10. Land next to and including the highway if - It's NOT IN A MUNICIPALITY AND It has HOMES OR BUSINESSES on it at intervals of less than 100ft - for at least a quarter mile
Urban district
crime
'Et Al'
robbery
11. Evidence illegally obtained by police officers can-not be used against the accused in a criminal case. (Mapp v. Ohio)
cause
Exclusionary Rule
mandamus
Pleadings
12. 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.
Parties
rebuttal
Park or parking
principles
13. 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
Dispose or dump
Right of way
equitable action
mandamus
14. Right to an attorney during criminal proceedingis What amendment
3rd Amendment
Default Judgement
due process
6th amendment
15. Person who swears to an affidavit or statement
Affiant
School crossing zone
Truck
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
16. 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.
forgery
principles
Libel
Injuction
17. Divided - controlled access highway
nolo contendere
Freeway
Official traffic control device
Farm Tractor
18. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree; also the judgment given.
Class 'A' dl
brief
Parties
adjudication
19. The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser degree - as from death to life imprisonment
necessarily included offenses
expert evidence
Alley
commutation
20. Evidence which is not admissible under the established rules of evidence.
transcript
incompetent evidence
injunction
extradition
21. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
Court of Criminal Appeals
parole
4th Amendment trial
probable cause
22. 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.
ordinance
cross examination
negligence
Court of Criminal Appeals
23. A preportory stage to a riot. A rout is necessary for a riot to occur. When a lawful assembly begins to move towards the execution of an unlawful propose - but before any acts of violence or disorder occur - a rout has been committed.
Highway or street
opinion evidence
rout
Court of Criminal Appeals
24. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's liberty - whether in prison or in custody
false arrest
4th Amendment trial
self-defense
necessarily included offenses
25. A deadly weapon; a long - heavy club usually carried by a law enforcement officer.
3rd Amendment
nightstick
preponderance of evidence
5th Amendment Trial
26. A legal document (process) signed by a judicial officer commanding a witness to appear and testify at a specific time and place
Injuction
'Et Al'
subpoena
Crosswalk
27. 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.
synergism
transcript
necessarily included offenses
indictment
28. Common Ancesry and physical characteristics
Motion
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
Petition
Race
29. Private office or room of a judge
3rd Amendment
condemnation
chambers
instruction
30. Oral or written statements made to the court presenting the claims and defenses of the parites
Park or parking
mandamus
rout
Pleadings
31. An article of personal property as distinguished from from real property.
riot
Chattel
4th Amendment trial
6th Amendment
32. Duran v. City of Douglas - Az
Ethnicity
1st Amendment trial
6th amendment
Right of way
33. The official record of proceedings in a trial or hearing
9th Amendment
malice
Chattel
transcript
34. Steet not primarily used for hrought traffic - that provides access to building or lots
battery
Alley
Class 'B' dl
Motor carrier
35. Powers not identified belong to the states.
condemnation
10th Amendment
School crossing zone
brief
36. 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
feigned accomplice
embezzlement
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
writ of possesion (Eviction)
37. A proceeding whereby property - money - or credits of a debtor - in possession of another (garnishee) - are applied to the debts of the debtor.
interrogatories
double jeopardy
Statute
Garishment
38. The practical application of the scientific study of fingerprint comparisons and the classification of prints
Frisk
dactyloscopy
Mistake of law
Open fields
39. 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
adjudication
fair preponderance
Roadway
extortion - theft by
40. Person - at least 18 yrs. old - that has the job of directing traffic in school zone.
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
Litter
School Crossing guard
Flammable liquid
41. Common-law and constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution of the same crime - transaction - or omission
corroboration evidence
Motor Vehicle Searches
double jeopardy
principles
42. Any substance capable of generating offensive - noxious - or suffocating fumes - gasses - or vapors.
noxious substance
Gross combination weight rating
discovery
malice
43. 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.
Traffic control signal
'Et Ux'
Contempt
mistrial
44. 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
'In Rem'
due process
felony
expunge
45. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
Contempt
riot
Traffic control signal
Licencse Ineligibility
46. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
crime
Contempt
'Et Seq'
plaintiff
47. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a fire hydrate?
no bill
Statute
Nighttime
15ft
48. Liquid that has a flash point of not more than 70 degrees
Class 'A' dl
4th Amendment trial
Pleadings
Flammable liquid
49. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
plaintiff
expert evidence
best evidence
domicile
50. Is used to recover possession of rental property.
Writ of possesion
feigned accomplice
Race
change of venue