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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Common Ancesry and physical characteristics
battery
Race
20ft
Pro Bono
2. Decayable waste (animal/vegetable) - Non-decayable/solid waste that consist of boxes -rubber - plastic - metal - etc.
6th Amendment
Freeway
Licencse Ineligibility
Litter
3. Freedom of religion - Freedom of speech - Freedom of the press - Freedom to peaceably assemble - Rights to grievances
14th Amendment
1st amendment
Truck
Fraud
4. The challenge which the prosecution or defense may use to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning cause.
Habitual criminal
verdict
Urban district
peremptory challenge
5. One of the lanes on the freeway
prosecutor
Commitment
Park or parking
Freeway main lane
6. From 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise.
accessory
Nighttime
'Et Ux'
indictment
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
Truck
Official Misconduct
Pro Bono
8. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
Bailee
Contempt
nolo contendere
self-defense
9. Anyone under 15 Y.O.A - Anyone under 18 Y.O.A unless they comply with driver education training - Anyone proven to be addicted to certain substances.
Licencse Ineligibility
'Et Al'
Affiant
self-defense
10. In Re Gault
no bill
Conservator Of Peace
6th Amendment trial
Trailer
11. Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it
corroboration evidence
change of venue
fair preponderance
due process
12. 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
dactyloscopy
riot
Dispose or dump
bail bond
13. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
Bailee
domicile
Limitation
1st Amendment trial
14. Portion of a street that is in between the edge of the road and adjacent property line.
Freeway
Bailee
Sidewalk
accomplice
15. Motor vehicle used to draw another vehicle. NOT MEANT TO CARRY A LOAD - OTHER HAN PART OF THE WEIGHT OF THE OTHER VEHICLERO
Indigent/Pauper
Pleadings
Truck tractor
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
16. An order or precept in writing - issued in the name of the people or of a court or judicial officer.
writ
Highway or street
Race
Official traffic control device
17. 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
testimony
Licencse Ineligibility
5th Amendment Trial
18. A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury
Shoulder
Business district
Laned roadway
bailiff
19. Sufficent to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebuted.
20. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal
robbery
cause
Motor carrier
Exclusionary Rule
21. When an attorney works for client for no fee.
preponderance of evidence
instruction
Gross combination weight rating
Pro Bono
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
extenuation circumstances
Ethnicity
Dispose or dump
default
23. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
6th Amendment
arraignment
Court of Criminal Appeals
instruction
24. Final appeallate jurisdiction in penalty cases
Court of Criminal Appeals
adjudication
Official Misconduct
Alias Citation
25. A pleading usually used by defendants in criminal cases - which literally means 'I will not contest it'.
nolo contendere
cross examination
Dispose or dump
Business district
26. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
injunction
transcript
Inadmissible
2nd Amendment
27. Duran v. City of Douglas - Az
Pleadings
4th Amendment trial
1st Amendment trial
rout
28. 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
accomplice
change of venue
equitable action
demur
29. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
prosecutor
writ
Commitment
probable cause
30. A legislative enactment by a municipality (e.g.' local curfew - parking violations); a local law as opposed to a state statute.
ordinance
felony
double jeopardy
venue
31. Is a order signed by a proper magistrate directing a sheriff to recieve and place in jail.
Commitment
cross examination
4th Amendment
testimony
32. A certain time allowed by statute in which litigation must be brought.
Flammable liquid
Limitation
Bus
Open fields
33. 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
20ft
subpoena
brief
extortion - theft by
34. 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
School Crossing guard
Writ of possesion
Commitment
advancing prostitution
35. An original writ commanding judges or officers of inferior courts to certify or to return records of proceedings in a cause for judicial review
Motor Vehicle Searches
certiorari
Right of way
3rd Amendment
36. 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.
assault
necessarily included offenses
instruction
nightstick
37. 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.
robbery
demur
discovery
Flashing yellow light
38. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
mandamus
misfeasance
Frisk
Crosswalk
39. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
instruction
corroboration evidence
'Prima Face'
recognizance
40. The assertion - declaration - or statement of a party to an action - made in a pleading - setting out what he/she expects to prove
expert evidence
allegation
robbery
negligence
41. Right to bail - Protection from excessive fines - No cruel of unusual punishment
Obscene
8th Amendment
6th amendment
'In Rem'
42. Common-law and constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution of the same crime - transaction - or omission
arraignment
commutation
Return
double jeopardy
43. Commands the person to whom it is directed to desist or refrain from the commision or continuance of the act enjoined or to obey and execute such order as the court has seen proper to issue.
Commercial Motor vehicle
Injuction
Official traffic control device
extortion - theft by
44. Shared culture and background - Shared language - religion and other culture patterns
misfeasance
advancing prostitution
dactyloscopy
Ethnicity
45. 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.
6th amendment
interrogatories
Fraud
Right of way
46. A person who brings an action; the party who complains or sues in a personal action and is so named on the record.
plaintiff
'Ex Rel'
incompetent evidence
bail
47. Right to an attorney during criminal proceedingis What amendment
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
bind over
6th amendment
Statute
48. Reduced speed zone to facilitate children going to and from school.
bail
Official Misconduct
Farm Tractor
School crossing zone
49. Evidence illegally obtained by police officers can-not be used against the accused in a criminal case. (Mapp v. Ohio)
Affiant
magistrate
Exclusionary Rule
preponderance of evidence
50. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's liberty - whether in prison or in custody
Flammable liquid
false arrest
commutation
Court of Criminal Appeals