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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of crosswalk at an intersection?
Litter
20ft
opinion evidence
Official Misconduct
2. 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
prosecutor
equitable action
6th amendment
Trailer
3. And other persons. -Commonly used to include anyone associated the named defendant in reference to the matter before he court.
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4. Area between the boundary lines/ right of way lines of a publicly maintained way - which is open to vehicular travel.
change of venue
Motor Vehicle Searches
Fraud
Highway or street
5. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
arraignment
probable cause
Alias Citation
adjudication
6. A 'default' in an action of law occurs when a defendant fails to plead within the time allowed or fails to appear at the trial
default
Indigent/Pauper
Gross combination weight rating
preponderance of evidence
7. To stand an occupied or unoccupied vehicle other than while loading or unloading
5th Amendment Trial
Levy
Park or parking
Truck tractor
8. By or on the relation of.
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9. Can be pedestrians - ridden or herded animals or vehicles.
6th Amendment
School crossing zone
bail bond
Traffic
10. 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
Official Misconduct
Petition
Urban district
riot
11. 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.
Truck
indictment
3rd Amendment
Inadmissible
12. From 1/2 hour before sunrise - to 1/2 hour after sunset
Daytime
Fraud
Race
5th Amendment Trial
13. And the following one or ones.
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14. Duran v. City of Douglas - Az
Petition
Traffic control signal
1st Amendment trial
deposition
15. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
parole
domicile
adjudication
Crosswalk
16. 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.
Class 'A' dl
search warrant
Pleadings
Dispose or dump
17. Probable cause to search vehicle (Carroll v. U.S)
testimony
amicus curiae
discovery
Motor Vehicle Searches
18. In Re Gault
6th Amendment trial
rebuttal
Sequestration
Court of Criminal Appeals
19. Shared culture and background - Shared language - religion and other culture patterns
writ
Ethnicity
cross examination
fair preponderance
20. Operate a vehicle with G.V.W.are of 26 -001 or more - Combo of vehicles 26 -001 or more towing more than 10000
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21. Allows a landlord who prevails in an eviction suit to regain possession of the premises that were in dispute.
advancing prostitution
bail
writ of possesion (Eviction)
subpoena
22. Evidence which is not admissible under the established rules of evidence.
voir dire
forgery
9th Amendment
incompetent evidence
23. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
domicile
search warrant
brief
expert evidence
24. 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
instruction
accomplice
opinion evidence
prosecutor
25. A decision or order of the court. a final decree is one which fully and finally disposes of the litigation; an interlocutory decree is a provisional or preliminary decree which is not final.
Shoulder
feigned accomplice
5th Amendment
decree
26. To collect - gather - take up - seize - or execute on monies - real - or personal property under a lwfully issued writ.
Laned roadway
chambers
Levy
Freeway main lane
27. The commission of some act which is prohibited by law.
forgery
discovery
Malfeasance
Mistake of law
28. A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury
bailiff
Improved shoulder
bind over
1st Amendment trial
29. 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.
Urban district
domicile
recognizance
'Et Seq'
30. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
testimony
embezzlement
School crossing zone
Ethnicity
31. A misdeed or trespass. The improper performance of some act which a person may lawfully do.
power of attorney
Habitual criminal
misfeasance
advancing prostitution
32. The official record of proceedings in a trial or hearing
transcript
Malfeasance
default
Court of Criminal Appeals
33. A legislative enactment by a municipality (e.g.' local curfew - parking violations); a local law as opposed to a state statute.
due process
Bailee
ordinance
5th Amendment
34. An order or precept in writing - issued in the name of the people or of a court or judicial officer.
Official Misconduct
Litter
'Et Al'
writ
35. A legal document (process) signed by a judicial officer commanding a witness to appear and testify at a specific time and place
Safety Zone
subpoena
allegation
Roadway
36. Evidence given by a competent witness - under oath; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings and other sources
Laned roadway
adjudication
testimony
Freeway
37. Every person who - after a felony has been committed - harbors - conceals - or aids a principal in such felony - with the intent that said principal may avoid or escape from arrest - trial - conviction - or punishment - having knowledge that said pri
Court of Criminal Appeals
ordinance
accessory
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
38. Any sign - signal - marking - or device that is placed lawfully and is used to regulate - warn - or guide traffic
Flashing yellow light
Laned roadway
Official traffic control device
Writ of possesion
39. Is a order signed by a proper magistrate directing a sheriff to recieve and place in jail.
Commitment
Pleadings
'Prima Face'
Sidewalk
40. That which - under the established rules of evidence - cannot be admitted or received into a court of law.
Garishment
Inadmissible
noxious substance
Open fields
41. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
Traffic control signal
Sidewalk
Improved shoulder
Injuction
42. A motor vehicle used primarily as a farm implement.
Farm Tractor
'Et Seq'
Frisk
Special mobile equipment
43. From 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise.
injunction
Motor carrier
Litter
Nighttime
44. 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.
negligence
Race
preponderance of evidence
14th Amendment
45. A certain time allowed by statute in which litigation must be brought.
dactyloscopy
extortion - theft by
rout
Limitation
46. Divided - controlled access highway
advancing prostitution
1st amendment
rout
Freeway
47. When an attorney works for client for no fee.
3rd Amendment
misfeasance
opinion evidence
Pro Bono
48. An instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or attorney.
Levy
best evidence
riot
power of attorney
49. Powers not identified belong to the states.
10th Amendment
chambers
fence
false arrest
50. Evidence sufficient to convince the triers of fact that the party who has the burden of doing so has established its cause
assault
crime
fair preponderance
Fraud