GPSTC Test 1 Questions and Answers
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Abet - ✔✔(v.) to encourage, assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong or
unworthy)
Affirmative defense - ✔✔I did it but... or self defense.
A response to a plaintiff's claim that does not deny the plaintiff's facts but attacks the
plaintiff's legal right to bring an action. An example is the running of the statute of
limitations.
Felony - ✔✔Crime punishable by death, life imprisonment or imprisonment for more
than 12 months
Another - ✔✔A person or persons other than the accused
Aggravation - ✔✔n. The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime ,
offense, misfortune, etc.
Alibi - ✔✔a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a
criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.
Amenable - ✔✔(adj.) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive;
responsive; liable to be held responsible
Burden of proof - ✔✔the obligation to present evidence to support one's claim
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, Coercion - ✔✔the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or
threats
Conspiracy - ✔✔a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an
unlawful act
Conviction - ✔✔A fixed or strong belief or opinion
Crime - ✔✔An act against the law
Criminal attempt - ✔✔Act or omission constituting a substantial step in a course of
conduct planned to culminate in the commission of a crime.
Culpability - ✔✔a state of guilt
Deadly weapon - ✔✔Any instrument, which by its contemplated design or by the
manner it is used, is readily capable of causing substantial bodily harm or death.
Delusional compulsion - ✔✔
Common Law - ✔✔(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
Constitution - ✔✔A document which spells out the principles by which a government
runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society. 7 Articles
Statutes - ✔✔written laws enacted by legislatures
Case Law - ✔✔the rules of law announced in court decisions
Article 1 - ✔✔Legislative Branch
Article 2 - ✔✔Executive Branch
Article 3 - ✔✔Judicial Branch
Article 4 - ✔✔Relations among states, extradition crimes between states
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100% Pass
Abet - ✔✔(v.) to encourage, assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong or
unworthy)
Affirmative defense - ✔✔I did it but... or self defense.
A response to a plaintiff's claim that does not deny the plaintiff's facts but attacks the
plaintiff's legal right to bring an action. An example is the running of the statute of
limitations.
Felony - ✔✔Crime punishable by death, life imprisonment or imprisonment for more
than 12 months
Another - ✔✔A person or persons other than the accused
Aggravation - ✔✔n. The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime ,
offense, misfortune, etc.
Alibi - ✔✔a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a
criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.
Amenable - ✔✔(adj.) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive;
responsive; liable to be held responsible
Burden of proof - ✔✔the obligation to present evidence to support one's claim
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, Coercion - ✔✔the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or
threats
Conspiracy - ✔✔a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an
unlawful act
Conviction - ✔✔A fixed or strong belief or opinion
Crime - ✔✔An act against the law
Criminal attempt - ✔✔Act or omission constituting a substantial step in a course of
conduct planned to culminate in the commission of a crime.
Culpability - ✔✔a state of guilt
Deadly weapon - ✔✔Any instrument, which by its contemplated design or by the
manner it is used, is readily capable of causing substantial bodily harm or death.
Delusional compulsion - ✔✔
Common Law - ✔✔(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
Constitution - ✔✔A document which spells out the principles by which a government
runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society. 7 Articles
Statutes - ✔✔written laws enacted by legislatures
Case Law - ✔✔the rules of law announced in court decisions
Article 1 - ✔✔Legislative Branch
Article 2 - ✔✔Executive Branch
Article 3 - ✔✔Judicial Branch
Article 4 - ✔✔Relations among states, extradition crimes between states
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