This is the kind of legal case when individuals sue one another to seek compensation.
What is criminal case?
100
This is defense used when a crime is committed when a person is legally insane.
What is the insanity plea?
100
This is the term for taking someone else's property and not intending to give it back.
What is larceny?
100
These are the three main functions of a patrol officer.
What is law enforcement, order maintenance, and service?
100
The term for the team that examines fingerprints, palm prints, lip prints, etc, and sometimes uses powders, chemicals, and lasers to discover and collect them.
What is latent print unit?
200
This is the kind of legal case where someone has committed a crime against society.
What is criminal case?
200
This is the defense used when the government tries to lure people into committing crimes.
What is entrapment?
200
The term for unlawful entry into any building with the intent to commit a crime.
What is burglary?
200
These agents of the law work in plainclothes, investigate serious crimes, have flexible hours, sometimes present cases for the prosecution, and get paid more than patrol officers.
What is a detective?
200
The term for the group that uses DNA profiles and evidence to determine if someone was or was not at a crime scene.
What is DNA unit?
300
This is the term for criminal law that is based solely on legal precedents and court cases.
What is common law?
300
This is the defense used when you have a reasonable belief that the force you used was required to protect yourself from harm.
What is self-defense?
300
The term for stealing with the threat or use of violence against a person.
What is robbery?
300
The term for when the witness is shown a single suspect and asked to determine if the suspect committed the crime.
What is a showup?
300
This group examines guns, ammunition, evidence with residue from gunshots, tools, motor vehicle numbers, etc; they also examine marks made by tools such as a screwdriver.
What is firearms and toolmark unit?
400
This is another term for criminal intent.
What is mens rea?
400
The affirmative defense you would use if a police officer, in plain clothes, approached a person and offered, over and over again, to sell them a stolen television.
What is entrapment?
400
What is the term for using a dangerous weapon to steal from someone.
What is armed robbery?
400
This is when a witness is shown five to six suspects and asked to pick the person who committed the crime.
What is a lineup?
400
This group examines hairs, fibers, ropes, feathers, plants, building material, etc, to find evidence to help re-create the crime scene.
What is trace evidence unit?
500
This term means that an act has to have a harmful result.
What is causation?
500
The kind of affirmative defense you would use, after being burglarized twice, if you hit someone with a baseball bat at your door who you didn't recognize.
What is self-defense?
500
What is the term for stealing property over a certain amount (often over $500.00).
What is grand theft?
500
This is when a detective shows pictures of suspects and asks the witness to pick the picture of the person who committed the crime.
What is throw-down?
500
The term for the group that examines anything that has to do with paper, breaks codes, and also handles footprints and tire tracks.