Louisiana POST Exam Questions And Verified
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Curtilage - Answer The area to which extends the intimate activity associated with the
sanctity of a mans home and privacy of life
4th Amendment - Answer Protects you from the government conducting unlawful search
and seizures where you have reasonable expectation of privacy.
Seizure - Answer The dominion or control by the government over person or things
because of a violation of the law.
Qualified Immunity - Protection when the officer is acting in good faith
Voyeurism - Peeping Toms
Incest - Sexual relations with a near relative
Necrophilia - A sexual attraction or sexual intercourse with dead bodies
Schizophrenia - A psychosis characterized by withdraw from reality with high variable,
accompanying affective behavioral and intellectual disturbances.
Pyromania - A compulsion to set fires
Masochism - Answer A sexual perversion in which one person derives pleasure from
physical pain inflicted by another.
, Kleptomania - Answer A compulsion to steal an object regardless of its value or worth.
Crime Against Nature - Answer Unnatural sex acts or unnatural sexual intercourse
Rigors Mortis - Answer Temporary rigidity of muscles occurring after death
En Banc - A hearing where a case is heard in front of all of the judges on a court.
Voir Dire- The process where potential witnesses are questioned to check for prejudice or
other issues for challenges to the jurors.
stare decisis - the rule that a question of law, once decided by the highest court in a
jurisdiction, is conclusively determined and will be followed in all future cases presenting
the same issue
Nolle Prosequi - a declaration to a court by the plaintiff that he does not wish to further
prosecute the case
Modus Operandi - Means of operation by criminals
Mittimus - A writ issued from a court directing a officer to convey the person named
therein to jail or other place of confinement
Mens Rea - Criminal, literally a guilty mind
Mandamus - A writ which issues out of a superior court directed to any person
corporation of inferior court requiring them to do a particular thing
Mali Fides - Answer In bad faith
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