COURT INTERPRETER COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
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✔✔Jurisdiction - ✔✔The power to hear and to decide cases. Jurisdiction exists over
particular types of cases (i.e., over subject matter), and over parties (i.e., personal
jurisdiction). Also used to refer to a particular unit of government (e.g., a state),
particularly with respect to its judicial powers (e.g., different jurisdictions have different
legal tests for insanity).
✔✔Larceny - ✔✔theft
✔✔Lechery - ✔✔lewdness
✔✔Levy - ✔✔tax or fee
✔✔Libel - ✔✔written defamation
✔✔Parole - ✔✔A conditional release from imprisonment which entitles the person
receiving
the parole to serve the remainder of his term outside of prison if he satisfactorily
complies with all the terms and conditions connected therewith.
✔✔Plea bargain - ✔✔Plea negotiations can center around the defendant's pleading
guilty to a lesser offense, or
to only one or several of the counts in a multi-count indictment or information. In return,
the defendant seeks to obtain concessions as to the type or length of his sentence or
the
reduction or elimination of charges against him.
✔✔Peremptory challenge - ✔✔The right of a party to exclude a prospective juror from
serving on the jury for any reason and without explanation, subject to the civil rights
laws.
✔✔Probable cause - ✔✔Reasonable ground for belief that certain facts exist.
✔✔Allegation - ✔✔n. a statement of claimed fact contained in a complaint (a written
pleading filed to begin a lawsuit), a criminal charge, or an affirmative defense (part of
the written answer to a complaint). Until each statement is proved it is only an
allegation. Some allegations are made "on information and belief" if the person making
the statement is not sure of a fact.
✔✔Allow the Claim - ✔✔To decide a claim in favor of the party asserting it. Also to deny
a pre-trial motion to dismiss a claim and thereby to allow the proponent to continue
litigating it.
, ✔✔Arrears - ✔✔That which is unpaid although due to be paid. A person "in arrears" is
behind in payment.
✔✔Asked and Answered - ✔✔An objection that a question to a witness is cumulative,
that is, it has already been asked by counsel and answered by the witness.
✔✔Attorney General - ✔✔The chief law enforcement officer of the federal government
and generally of a state government. His office represents the government and its
agencies in court, including assisting or serving as prosecutors in the prosecution of
criminal cases.
✔✔Bail Forfeiture - ✔✔Loss of bail status by order of a judge, usually upon a
defendant's
failure to appear.
✔✔Bench Trial - ✔✔Trial held before a judge sitting without a jury. It usually requires
waiver by the defendant of a jury trial.
✔✔Beyond a reasonable Doubt - ✔✔- Burden of proof which prosecution must meet
to convict a criminal defendant. See "reasonable doubt," below.
✔✔Bill of particulars - ✔✔A written statement of the particulars of the charges or
claims against the defendant or another party.
✔✔Bonding over - ✔✔Act by which a judge or magistrate requires a person to furnish
bail
or to enter into a recognizance as a condition to his release from custody to ensure that
he
will appear for trial, attend as a witness, or perform some other act.
✔✔Magistrate - ✔✔A civil or lay judge or other official who is responsible for
administering and enforcing the laws, usually by holding hearings on minor offenses. A
judge that hears traffic ticket cases and fines people is an example of a magistrate.
✔✔Breach of Conditions - ✔✔Violation by a parolee of the conditions of his parole,
which may result in revocation of parole and incarceration. Also failure of an event to
occur which is a condition to a party's performance under a contract.
✔✔Brief - ✔✔A document prepared by counsel setting out argument on a particular
matter in
dispute.
✔✔Case Law - ✔✔the law as established by the outcome of former cases.
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Jurisdiction - ✔✔The power to hear and to decide cases. Jurisdiction exists over
particular types of cases (i.e., over subject matter), and over parties (i.e., personal
jurisdiction). Also used to refer to a particular unit of government (e.g., a state),
particularly with respect to its judicial powers (e.g., different jurisdictions have different
legal tests for insanity).
✔✔Larceny - ✔✔theft
✔✔Lechery - ✔✔lewdness
✔✔Levy - ✔✔tax or fee
✔✔Libel - ✔✔written defamation
✔✔Parole - ✔✔A conditional release from imprisonment which entitles the person
receiving
the parole to serve the remainder of his term outside of prison if he satisfactorily
complies with all the terms and conditions connected therewith.
✔✔Plea bargain - ✔✔Plea negotiations can center around the defendant's pleading
guilty to a lesser offense, or
to only one or several of the counts in a multi-count indictment or information. In return,
the defendant seeks to obtain concessions as to the type or length of his sentence or
the
reduction or elimination of charges against him.
✔✔Peremptory challenge - ✔✔The right of a party to exclude a prospective juror from
serving on the jury for any reason and without explanation, subject to the civil rights
laws.
✔✔Probable cause - ✔✔Reasonable ground for belief that certain facts exist.
✔✔Allegation - ✔✔n. a statement of claimed fact contained in a complaint (a written
pleading filed to begin a lawsuit), a criminal charge, or an affirmative defense (part of
the written answer to a complaint). Until each statement is proved it is only an
allegation. Some allegations are made "on information and belief" if the person making
the statement is not sure of a fact.
✔✔Allow the Claim - ✔✔To decide a claim in favor of the party asserting it. Also to deny
a pre-trial motion to dismiss a claim and thereby to allow the proponent to continue
litigating it.
, ✔✔Arrears - ✔✔That which is unpaid although due to be paid. A person "in arrears" is
behind in payment.
✔✔Asked and Answered - ✔✔An objection that a question to a witness is cumulative,
that is, it has already been asked by counsel and answered by the witness.
✔✔Attorney General - ✔✔The chief law enforcement officer of the federal government
and generally of a state government. His office represents the government and its
agencies in court, including assisting or serving as prosecutors in the prosecution of
criminal cases.
✔✔Bail Forfeiture - ✔✔Loss of bail status by order of a judge, usually upon a
defendant's
failure to appear.
✔✔Bench Trial - ✔✔Trial held before a judge sitting without a jury. It usually requires
waiver by the defendant of a jury trial.
✔✔Beyond a reasonable Doubt - ✔✔- Burden of proof which prosecution must meet
to convict a criminal defendant. See "reasonable doubt," below.
✔✔Bill of particulars - ✔✔A written statement of the particulars of the charges or
claims against the defendant or another party.
✔✔Bonding over - ✔✔Act by which a judge or magistrate requires a person to furnish
bail
or to enter into a recognizance as a condition to his release from custody to ensure that
he
will appear for trial, attend as a witness, or perform some other act.
✔✔Magistrate - ✔✔A civil or lay judge or other official who is responsible for
administering and enforcing the laws, usually by holding hearings on minor offenses. A
judge that hears traffic ticket cases and fines people is an example of a magistrate.
✔✔Breach of Conditions - ✔✔Violation by a parolee of the conditions of his parole,
which may result in revocation of parole and incarceration. Also failure of an event to
occur which is a condition to a party's performance under a contract.
✔✔Brief - ✔✔A document prepared by counsel setting out argument on a particular
matter in
dispute.
✔✔Case Law - ✔✔the law as established by the outcome of former cases.
