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Police Legal Vocab
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1. The challenge which the prosecution or defense may use to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning cause.
Race
Garishment
domicile
peremptory challenge
2. And other persons. -Commonly used to include anyone associated the named defendant in reference to the matter before he court.
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3. A motor vehicle designed to carry more than 10 or motor vehicle other than a cab
embezzlement
Inadmissible
Bus
preponderance of evidence
4. The practical application of the scientific study of fingerprint comparisons and the classification of prints
'Et Seq'
Flashing yellow light
Race
dactyloscopy
5. Final appeallate jurisdiction in penalty cases
1st amendment
Court of Criminal Appeals
best evidence
Alias Citation
6. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another
testimony
Right of way
condemnation
tort
7. 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
deposition
'Et Ux'
Court of Criminal Appeals
commutation
8. Paved Shoulder
Truck tractor
nightstick
Freeway
Improved shoulder
9. 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
Statute
Garishment
cross examination
20ft
10. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree; also the judgment given.
dactyloscopy
Farm Tractor
Bicycle
adjudication
11. Judgement entered by the court upon the failure of party to plead or appear at the appointed time.
Open fields
Default Judgement
Frisk
Improved shoulder
12. Portion of a highway next to the roadway - which is distinguished by design - consruction - or marking - Area not Intended for vehicle travel.
Shoulder
transcript
equitable action
venue
13. A deadly weapon; a long - heavy club usually carried by a law enforcement officer.
nightstick
6th amendment
30ft
4th Amendment trial
14. Evidence illegally obtained by police officers can-not be used against the accused in a criminal case. (Mapp v. Ohio)
Exclusionary Rule
Residence district
writ of possesion (Eviction)
ordinance
15. Common Ancesry and physical characteristics
Race
polygraph
Highway or street
Business district
16. 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
Sequestration
indictment
'Prima Face'
17. 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.
mistrial
'Et Ux'
Alley
peremptory challenge
18. The persons who are actively concerned in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.
Licencse Ineligibility
assault
Parties
necessarily included offenses
19. Any sign - signal - marking - or device that is placed lawfully and is used to regulate - warn - or guide traffic
Special mobile equipment
Motor carrier
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
Official traffic control device
20. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
Freeway
feigned accomplice
Open fields
Contempt
21. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's liberty - whether in prison or in custody
Malfeasance
Official traffic control device
Roadway
false arrest
22. Citation issued after the original ciation usually directed to the sheriff or another county or directed to the defendant under another.
accomplice
ordinance
interrogatories
Alias Citation
23. Liquid that has a flash point of not more than 70 degrees
Flammable liquid
directed verdict
Flashing yellow light
6th Amendment
24. The entering of a private or restricted premise with the intent to commit grand theft - petty theft - or a felony
nolo contendere
Official traffic control device
cause
burglary
25. To stand an occupied or unoccupied vehicle other than while loading or unloading
Park or parking
malice
Commercial Motor vehicle
School crossing zone
26. 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
20ft
bail bond
1st Amendment trial
27. The assertion - declaration - or statement of a party to an action - made in a pleading - setting out what he/she expects to prove
6th amendment
allegation
parole
Improved shoulder
28. Evidence sufficient to convince the triers of fact that the party who has the burden of doing so has established its cause
Garishment
fair preponderance
expunge
extradition
29. Probable cause to search vehicle (Carroll v. U.S)
Motor Vehicle Searches
cross examination
Freeway
Frisk
30. 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
Fraud
motive
Writ of possesion
Sidewalk
31. A written or printed document prepared by counsel to file in court - usually setting forth both facts and law in support of the case
School Crossing guard
amicus curiae
Shoulder
brief
32. Land next to and even including a highway - if it is used for business purposes. Area described as being 600ft segment - has at least 300 ft of it along the highway set up for businesses
Flashing yellow light
Business district
nolo contendere
self-defense
33. A receiver of stolen goods. typically This is someone who receives the stolen property for sale or distribution
accomplice
assault
fence
transcript
34. 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.
tort
Trailer
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
venue
35. The false making or material altering - with intent to defraud - of any writing which - if genuine - might be the foundation of a legal liability
brief
'Et Seq'
forgery
Affiant
36. Shared culture and background - Shared language - religion and other culture patterns
Sidewalk
Ethnicity
motive
deposition
37. 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
commutation
expert evidence
subpoena
rebuttal
38. Can be issued by a clerk of the court
subpoena
Capias
Class 'A' dl
nolo contendere
39. 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
Conservator Of Peace
condemnation
polygraph
feigned accomplice
40. 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.
fence
indictment
equitable action
Statute
41. Common-law and constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution of the same crime - transaction - or omission
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
Laned roadway
double jeopardy
4th Amendment trial
42. The surrender by one state to another of an individual accused or convicted of an offense outside its own territory and within the territorial jurisdiction of the other
Pleadings
Ethnicity
extradition
injunction
43. And wife. The phrase was formely common in case names and legal documents invovling a husband and wife jointly.
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44. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
extenuation circumstances
Garishment
arraignment
expunge
45. One who knowingly - voluntarily and with common intent with a principal offender - unites in the commission of a crime
accomplice
Business district
nightstick
battery
46. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal
Alias Citation
cause
Dispose or dump
Commitment
47. Citizens of each state are also - citizens of the U.S. state governments must adhere to the U.S. Constitution.
Commitment
Habitual criminal
14th Amendment
Sidewalk
48. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
prosecutor
'Et Ux'
polygraph
domicile
49. Is an affimative defense
Open fields
adjudication
'Et Al'
Mistake of law
50. 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.
Business district
Levy
14th Amendment
Fraud