Motor Vehicle Law
Most motor vehicle offenses are classified as:
Infractions
The legal standard required to make an arrest:
Probable Cause
A permanent written record of the facts of a case to be used in further investigation, in writing reports and prosecuting the case:
Investigative notes
DMV Form for Traffic Crash Reporting
DMV-349
"knowingly, willfully, wantonly, and malicious" refer to a suspect's ______.
State of Mind
The minimum legal standard required to stop a vehicle:
Reasonable Suspicion
Name the Three Sources of Law:
- Constitutional law
- Statutory law
- Common law
What Supreme Court Case allows officers to conduct a protective sweep of a property without a warrant?:
Mincey vs Arizona
A crash is considered reportable if total property damage is ____ or more:
$1,000
This type of crime does not require a State of Mind such as "knowingly" or "willingly"
Strict Liability Crime
A driver is guilty of _________ if the driver unintentionally causes serious injury to another person WHILE INTOXICATED, and the DWI was the proximate cause of the serious injury.
Felony Serious Injury by Vehicle
Judge-made law is referred to as:
Common law
These photos & video show relationships of evidence to other points of interest:
Mid-range
The entire width between property or right-of-way lines of every way or place of whatever nature, when any part, thereof, is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for vehicular traffic:
Highway (Street)
This concept refers to when a subject meant to kill one person but accidentally kills another OR an innocent person is killed directly because of a crime.
Transferred Intent
North Carolina DMV may revoke the driver license of a North Carolina resident for a conviction in another state for exceeding a stated speed limit of 55 miles per hour OR more by more than ____ miles per hour.
15
Type of law defines the rights and duties of citizens. It is created by legislative or judicial action. It prohibits conduct such as robbery, larceny, or assault.
Substantive law
The three intervals for taking photos and videos at a crime scene:
- long-range
- midrange
- Close-up
Damage that is caused by the vehicle being hit in one area and the vehicle reacting in another. An example is the roof buckling when the vehicle is hit on the front.
Induced damage
An example of this concept would be when one is well aware of a drugs in their vicinity or the drugs are in plain view but nothing is done about it:
Constructive Possession
Motor Vehicle Crashes are the leading cause of death for individuals ages ____ to _____.
4 to 34
A special act of the legislature inflicting punishment on a person without a conviction through judicial proceedings.
Bill of Attainder
Three Crime Scene Measuring Techniques:
- Triangulation
- Rectangular coordinate method
- Base line
Tire marks essentially fall into one of three categories.
- skids
- yaws
- prints
The two key elements of First-Degree Murder:
Malice & Premeditation