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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Go thru only with caution
Park or parking
Flashing yellow light
4th Amendment
Pro Bono
2. Primary evidence - as distinguished from secondary evidence; the best and highest evidence of which the nature of the case is susceptible
synergism
felony
best evidence
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
3. Can be pedestrians - ridden or herded animals or vehicles.
Injuction
assault
Traffic
Highway or street
4. 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
accessory
Freeway
riot
testimony
5. Sufficent to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebuted.
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6. The predominate appeal of the matter taken as a whole is to a prurient interest in sexual conduct involving minors.
6th Amendment
Obscene
'Et Ux'
Truck tractor
7. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
crime
motive
nightstick
probable cause
8. Is an affimative defense
Mistake of law
double jeopardy
equitable action
motive
9. Area in roadway designaaed for exclusive pedestrian use. Mus have signage or markings
Safety Zone
'Et Al'
equitable action
9th Amendment
10. 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
Sidewalk
Business district
bailiff
6th amendment
11. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a traffic control device thats on the side of the road?
Flammable liquid
6th Amendment trial
30ft
verdict
12. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
rebuttal
mistrial
arraignment
Daytime
13. Any sign - signal - marking - or device that is placed lawfully and is used to regulate - warn - or guide traffic
prosecutor
Official traffic control device
change of venue
4th Amendment
14. Paved Shoulder
probable cause
necessarily included offenses
Improved shoulder
extenuation circumstances
15. Powers not identified belong to the states.
Litter
bailiff
Bailee
10th Amendment
16. Oral or written statements made to the court presenting the claims and defenses of the parites
Pleadings
Statute
commutation
Petition
17. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
Capias
'Et Ux'
domicile
Park or parking
18. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal
synergism
writ
necessarily included offenses
cause
19. A proceeding whereby property - money - or credits of a debtor - in possession of another (garnishee) - are applied to the debts of the debtor.
'Prima Face'
Garishment
corroboration evidence
tort
20. When an attorney works for client for no fee.
Roadway
Pro Bono
6th amendment
misfeasance
21. To collect - gather - take up - seize - or execute on monies - real - or personal property under a lwfully issued writ.
Special mobile equipment
recognizance
Trailer
Levy
22. 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
arraignment
mistrial
Class 'A' dl
23. A motor vehicle used primarily as a farm implement.
Farm Tractor
Motor Vehicle Searches
Commitment
commutation
24. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
instruction
voir dire
peremptory challenge
2nd Amendment
25. Intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse.
Bus
principles
feigned accomplice
malice
26. The felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another from his/her person or immediate presence and against his/her will - accomplished by means of force or fear.
Race
prosecutor
due process
robbery
27. 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
20ft
prosecutor
Alias Citation
certiorari
28. Rubbish - refuse - waste material - offal - paper - glass - cans - bottles - trash - debris - or any foreign substance of whatever kind or description and whether or not it is of value.
6th amendment
peremptory challenge
Litter
2nd Amendment
29. 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
Sidewalk
cause
extortion - theft by
Through highway
30. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
Class 'A' dl
Ethnicity
Motor Vehicle Searches
injunction
31. Written questions propounded by one party and served on an adversary - who must provide answers thereto under oath.
nolo contendere
Truck tractor
interrogatories
Bus
32. A person who brings an action; the party who complains or sues in a personal action and is so named on the record.
Highway or street
plaintiff
Bicycle
Motor carrier
33. A motor vehicle designed to carry more than 10 or motor vehicle other than a cab
4th Amendment
Litter
Bus
amicus curiae
34. Right to bail - Protection from excessive fines - No cruel of unusual punishment
Court of Criminal Appeals
accessory
8th Amendment
feigned accomplice
35. The challenge which the prosecution or defense may use to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning cause.
deposition
search warrant
burglary
peremptory challenge
36. To file a pleading (called a demurrer) admitting the truth of the facts in the complaint or answer - but contending
demur
4th Amendment trial
6th Amendment
'In Rem'
37. Vehicle not designed to haul persons or property. O LESS THAN 40FT IN LENGTH.
Official traffic control device
Injuction
Special mobile equipment
dissent
38. Citizens of each state are also - citizens of the U.S. state governments must adhere to the U.S. Constitution.
Indigent/Pauper
14th Amendment
20ft
Commercial Motor vehicle
39. The act of physically destroying files - records - or information; for example - upon judicial order
Farm Tractor
extortion - theft by
1st amendment
expunge
40. 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.
voir dire
Gross combination weight rating
dissent
Pleadings
41. Rights not mention retained by people
9th Amendment
Daytime
Litter
Commercial Motor vehicle
42. 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
search warrant
adjudication
Motor carrier
cross examination
43. A legislative enactment by a federal or state body of legislators - more frequently referred to as 'a law'
mistrial
15ft
Statute
Gross combination weight rating
44. A suitor who - on account of poverty - is allowed to sue or defend without being chargable with cost
Indigent/Pauper
6th amendment
Litter
burglary
45. No force quarterly of soldiers - permitted only in war time and in accordance with the law.
Licencse Ineligibility
magistrate
3rd Amendment
Ethnicity
46. 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
Official traffic control device
Commercial Motor vehicle
recognizance
Conservator Of Peace
47. Reduced speed zone to facilitate children going to and from school.
negligence
adjudication
extortion - theft by
School crossing zone
48. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree; also the judgment given.
bailiff
recognizance
change of venue
adjudication
49. The entering of a private or restricted premise with the intent to commit grand theft - petty theft - or a felony
magistrate
burglary
discovery
Dispose or dump
50. Unoccupied -Undeveloped -Uncultivated
School crossing zone
Default Judgement
rout
Open fields