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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Decayable waste (animal/vegetable) - Non-decayable/solid waste that consist of boxes -rubber - plastic - metal - etc.
Safety Zone
advancing prostitution
Litter
Open fields
2. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal
Shoulder
cause
5th Amendment Trial
discovery
3. Final appeallate jurisdiction in penalty cases
Malfeasance
deposition
Court of Criminal Appeals
writ of possesion (Eviction)
4. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
Obscene
embezzlement
Sidewalk
Official traffic control device
5. 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
Flashing yellow light
necessarily included offenses
feigned accomplice
subpoena
6. A motor vehicle used primarily as a farm implement.
Ethnicity
Farm Tractor
expert evidence
expunge
7. A written or printed document prepared by counsel to file in court - usually setting forth both facts and law in support of the case
Truck tractor
brief
no bill
Garishment
8. Right to bear arms
Chattel
2nd Amendment
domicile
Laned roadway
9. And other persons. -Commonly used to include anyone associated the named defendant in reference to the matter before he court.
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10. Steet not primarily used for hrought traffic - that provides access to building or lots
9th Amendment
Alley
misfeasance
chambers
11. The name of a writ which issues from a court of superior jurisdiction - directed to an inferior court - commanding the performance of a particular act.
mandamus
tort
noxious substance
Truck tractor
12. Place any type of litter on or in land/water
ordinance
Inventory
Dispose or dump
corroboration evidence
13. An instrument used to record variations of several different body pulsations. The courts have not as yet agreed that the scientific principles of the polygraph - commonly called the lie detector - has crossed the line between the experimental and the
polygraph
transcript
Writ of possesion
nolo contendere
14. An instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or attorney.
Gross combination weight rating
no bill
power of attorney
injunction
15. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's liberty - whether in prison or in custody
Official Misconduct
6th Amendment
14th Amendment
false arrest
16. A misdeed or trespass. The improper performance of some act which a person may lawfully do.
Frisk
misfeasance
no bill
expert evidence
17. When an attorney works for client for no fee.
burglary
Pro Bono
rout
state's evidence
18. A person who brings an action; the party who complains or sues in a personal action and is so named on the record.
plaintiff
malice
Motor carrier
Indigent/Pauper
19. Offense that is an intentional or knowing violation of a law committed by a public servant while acting in an official capacity as a public servant.
Limitation
Frisk
Business district
Official Misconduct
20. 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.
synergism
Licencse Ineligibility
false arrest
writ of possesion (Eviction)
21. Unoccupied -Undeveloped -Uncultivated
4th Amendment trial
crime
Open fields
verdict
22. Evidence sufficient to convince the triers of fact that the party who has the burden of doing so has established its cause
Exclusionary Rule
fair preponderance
Pro Bono
1st Amendment trial
23. Paved Shoulder
Improved shoulder
Mistake of law
Farm Tractor
rebuttal
24. The challenge which the prosecution or defense may use to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning cause.
peremptory challenge
3rd Amendment
malice
subpoena
25. A suitor who - on account of poverty - is allowed to sue or defend without being chargable with cost
1st Amendment trial
Residence district
motive
Indigent/Pauper
26. An obligation signed by the accused - with his/her sureties - to secure his/her presence in court
bail bond
power of attorney
subpoena
allegation
27. A legal document (process) signed by a judicial officer commanding a witness to appear and testify at a specific time and place
Class 'B' dl
subpoena
voir dire
Residence district
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
default
1st amendment
double jeopardy
equitable action
29. Greater weight of evidence - or evidence which is more credible and convincing to the mind - not necessarily the greater number of witnesses.
Default Judgement
Bus
preponderance of evidence
Shoulder
30. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
advancing prostitution
Crosswalk
state's evidence
4th Amendment
31. To hold on bail for trial
interrogatories
Obscene
extortion - theft by
bind over
32. A motor vehicle designed to carry more than 10 or motor vehicle other than a cab
Bus
tort
3rd Amendment
adjudication
33. Person who swears to an affidavit or statement
Affiant
accessory
battery
Bus
34. Joint action of two separate drugs resulting in a total effect greater than the summed effects of both. For example - barbiturates are alcohol synergists - since the combined action of doses of alcohol and barbiturates (whoes additive effects would b
Commitment
Motion
synergism
dissent
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
2nd Amendment
certiorari
extradition
Laned roadway
36. To file a pleading (called a demurrer) admitting the truth of the facts in the complaint or answer - but contending
5th Amendment
School crossing zone
demur
accessory
37. 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
extradition
Bus
riot
parole
38. Value specified as the loaded weight of a combination or articulated vehicle
verdict
certiorari
Gross combination weight rating
Conservator Of Peace
39. 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.
1st amendment
demur
mistrial
principles
40. By or on the relation of.
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41. No force quarterly of soldiers - permitted only in war time and in accordance with the law.
crime
3rd Amendment
nolo contendere
School crossing zone
42. The practical application of the scientific study of fingerprint comparisons and the classification of prints
dactyloscopy
dissent
Malfeasance
Court of Criminal Appeals
43. An officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense.
Traffic control signal
Laned roadway
magistrate
Roadway
44. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
Park or parking
Nighttime
domicile
Alley
45. A highway that has PREFENTIAL RIGHT OF WAY in an intersection
Right of way
Through highway
'Et Seq'
Mistake of law
46. Any substance capable of generating offensive - noxious - or suffocating fumes - gasses - or vapors.
Business district
noxious substance
cause
certiorari
47. The removal of a suit begun in one county or district to another for trial or from one court to another in the same county or district
Motor Vehicle Searches
mandamus
change of venue
15ft
48. A friend of the court; one who interposes or volunteers information upon some matter of law
misfeasance
Sequestration
Return
amicus curiae
49. Motor vehicle used to draw another vehicle. NOT MEANT TO CARRY A LOAD - OTHER HAN PART OF THE WEIGHT OF THE OTHER VEHICLERO
Motor Vehicle Searches
Fraud
Truck tractor
Libel
50. 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.
demur
Bus
misfeasance
rout