Legal Terms in Detention and Law Enforcement Quiz
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Legal Terms in Detention and Law Enforcement Quiz

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The words "confined", "imprisoned", "in custody", "confinement", "imprisonment", refer not only to the actual, corporeal and forcible detention of a person, but likewise to any coercive measures by threats, menaces or the fear of injury, whereby one person exercises a control over the person of another, and detains him within certain limits.

  • Restraint
  • Probable Cause
  • Arrest
  • Constructive Custody (correct)
  • _________ is meant the kind of control which one person exercises over another, not to confine him within certain limits, but to subject him to the general authority and power of the person claiming such right.

  • Constructive Custody
  • Restraint (correct)
  • Arrest
  • None
  • A "____________-" is a written order from a magistrate, directed to a peace officer or some other person specially named, commanding him to take the body of the person accused of an offense, to be dealt with according to law.

  • Habeaus Corpus
  • Arrest
  • Warrant of arrest (correct)
  • custody
  • Requisites of a warrant:

    <p>All</p> Signup and view all the answers

    A summons may be issued in any case where a warrant may be issued, and shall be in the same form as the warrant except that it shall summon the defendant to appear before a magistrate at a stated time and place.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The affidavit made before the magistrate or district or county attorney is called a "_______" if it charges the commission of an offense.

    <p>Complaint</p> Signup and view all the answers

    If a warrant is issued by any other magistrate than is named in Article 15.06, the peace officer receiving the same shall proceed with it to the nearest magistrate of the peace officer's county

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    If the issuing or named magistrate is in another county, the person arrested shall without unnecessary delay be taken before some magistrate in the county in which he was arrested.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    If the magistrate is not authorized to appoint counsel, the magistrate shall without unnecessary delay, but not later than _____hours after the person arrested requests appointment of counsel, transmit, or cause to be transmitted to the court or to the courts' designee authorized under Article 26.04 to appoint counsel in the county, the forms requesting the appointment of counsel.

    <p>24</p> Signup and view all the answers

    If a person is arrested and taken before a magistrate in a county other than the county in which the arrest is made and if the person is remanded to custody, the person may be confined in a jail in the county in which the magistrate serves for a period of not more than 72 hours after the arrest before being transferred to the county jail of the county in which the arrest occurred.

    <p>72</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The officer need not have the warrant in his possession at the time of the arrest, provided the warrant was issued under the provisions of this Code, but upon request he shall show the warrant to the defendant as soon as possible.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    If the law enforcement agency ascertains that the individual is enrolled as a student in a public primary or secondary school, the head of the agency or a person designated by the head of the agency shall orally notify the superintendent or a person designated by the superintendent in the school district in which the student is enrolled of that arrest or referral within _____ hours after the arrest or referral is made, or before the next school day, whichever is earlier.

    <p>24</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Burglary of a rail car:

    <p>State</p> Signup and view all the answers

    NMV of a drug sales rep:

    <p>3rd</p> Signup and view all the answers

    BURGLARY OF COIN-OPERATED OR COIN COLLECTION MACHINES:

    <p>Class A</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Criminal trespass of cutting through land:

    <p>Class C</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Criminal trespass of land with purple markings:

    <p>Class B</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Criminal trespass of habitation

    <p>Class A</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Criminal trespass of a vehicle

    <p>Class B</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Forge means:

    <p>to alter, make, complete, execute, or authenticate any writing so that it purports</p> Signup and view all the answers

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