PROBATION OFFICER CORE EXAM SET 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Shock Probation - ✔✔The process of suspending offenders to prison, allowing them
to apply for probationary release and enacting such release in surprise fashion.
✔✔Subpeona - ✔✔A process to cause a witness to appear and give testimony before a
court named therein at a time and place mentioned under penalty.
✔✔Tort - ✔✔A wrong based on the act or omission of an act by a person that causes
an injury to another person or property of another person in violation of a duty imposed
by law.
✔✔Summons - ✔✔Legal document issued by the clerk or other court office notifying the
person a lawsuit has been filed and the dates of the hearing, deadline for responding
and that the person is required to respond.
✔✔Appellee - ✔✔Person against whom the appeal is taken (respondent)
✔✔Suspension - ✔✔To withhold the imprisonment or execution of a court-ordered
sentence
✔✔Referral - ✔✔Equivalent to an arrest, but involving a juvenile rather than an adult
✔✔Waiver - ✔✔The understanding and voluntary relinquishment of a known right, such
as the right to counsel or the right to remain silent during police questioning.
✔✔Appellant - ✔✔Person who initiates an appeal
✔✔Concurrent - ✔✔Having equal authority or jurisdiction; running together at the same
time.
✔✔Admissible - ✔✔Evidence which can legally and properly be used in court, in
accordance with trial rules
✔✔Affidavit - ✔✔A statement or declaration, reduced to writing and sworn or affirmed
under penalty of perjury before an officer who has the legal authority to administer an
oath or affirmation.
✔✔Consecutive - ✔✔Following one after the other without interruption
✔✔Confession - ✔✔A voluntary admission of the commission of the crime
✔✔AKA - ✔✔Also Known As
, ✔✔Conviction - ✔✔The act of proving or declaring guilt; rendering judgement upon an
accused person
✔✔Corpus Delecti - ✔✔The body or essence of the crime
✔✔Custodian - ✔✔Person with whom a child resides
✔✔Ward - ✔✔A person, especially a child, who is legally under the control and
protection of a guardian or a court
✔✔Writ - ✔✔An order issued by a court commanding that a certain act be done or not
done
✔✔Recidivist - ✔✔A person who, having committed a crime, commits another crime
✔✔Verdict - ✔✔A decision of a jury in a civil or criminal case
✔✔Receiving State - ✔✔State accepting transfer of a defendant's probation through the
use of interstate compact for supervision
✔✔Venue - ✔✔County in which a person resides or where the act was committed
✔✔Memorandum - ✔✔a written form given to the court by an adult criminal concerning
his sentence.
✔✔Public Defender - ✔✔A person designated by court as an attorney to defend
persons in litigation who do not have the means to hire his/her own attorney.
✔✔Alias - ✔✔Indicating one was called by one or the other of two names
✔✔Arraign - ✔✔To bring a person to the bar of the court to answer the matter charged
upon him to the indictment
✔✔Judge Pro Tempore or Judge Pro Tem - ✔✔Temporary judge
✔✔Reponderance - ✔✔More than 50%
✔✔Criminal History or Rap Sheet - ✔✔An arrest record for an individual
✔✔Search Warrant - ✔✔A legal document issued by a judge authorizing the search of a
place and seizure of specified items found there.
✔✔Sending State - ✔✔
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Shock Probation - ✔✔The process of suspending offenders to prison, allowing them
to apply for probationary release and enacting such release in surprise fashion.
✔✔Subpeona - ✔✔A process to cause a witness to appear and give testimony before a
court named therein at a time and place mentioned under penalty.
✔✔Tort - ✔✔A wrong based on the act or omission of an act by a person that causes
an injury to another person or property of another person in violation of a duty imposed
by law.
✔✔Summons - ✔✔Legal document issued by the clerk or other court office notifying the
person a lawsuit has been filed and the dates of the hearing, deadline for responding
and that the person is required to respond.
✔✔Appellee - ✔✔Person against whom the appeal is taken (respondent)
✔✔Suspension - ✔✔To withhold the imprisonment or execution of a court-ordered
sentence
✔✔Referral - ✔✔Equivalent to an arrest, but involving a juvenile rather than an adult
✔✔Waiver - ✔✔The understanding and voluntary relinquishment of a known right, such
as the right to counsel or the right to remain silent during police questioning.
✔✔Appellant - ✔✔Person who initiates an appeal
✔✔Concurrent - ✔✔Having equal authority or jurisdiction; running together at the same
time.
✔✔Admissible - ✔✔Evidence which can legally and properly be used in court, in
accordance with trial rules
✔✔Affidavit - ✔✔A statement or declaration, reduced to writing and sworn or affirmed
under penalty of perjury before an officer who has the legal authority to administer an
oath or affirmation.
✔✔Consecutive - ✔✔Following one after the other without interruption
✔✔Confession - ✔✔A voluntary admission of the commission of the crime
✔✔AKA - ✔✔Also Known As
, ✔✔Conviction - ✔✔The act of proving or declaring guilt; rendering judgement upon an
accused person
✔✔Corpus Delecti - ✔✔The body or essence of the crime
✔✔Custodian - ✔✔Person with whom a child resides
✔✔Ward - ✔✔A person, especially a child, who is legally under the control and
protection of a guardian or a court
✔✔Writ - ✔✔An order issued by a court commanding that a certain act be done or not
done
✔✔Recidivist - ✔✔A person who, having committed a crime, commits another crime
✔✔Verdict - ✔✔A decision of a jury in a civil or criminal case
✔✔Receiving State - ✔✔State accepting transfer of a defendant's probation through the
use of interstate compact for supervision
✔✔Venue - ✔✔County in which a person resides or where the act was committed
✔✔Memorandum - ✔✔a written form given to the court by an adult criminal concerning
his sentence.
✔✔Public Defender - ✔✔A person designated by court as an attorney to defend
persons in litigation who do not have the means to hire his/her own attorney.
✔✔Alias - ✔✔Indicating one was called by one or the other of two names
✔✔Arraign - ✔✔To bring a person to the bar of the court to answer the matter charged
upon him to the indictment
✔✔Judge Pro Tempore or Judge Pro Tem - ✔✔Temporary judge
✔✔Reponderance - ✔✔More than 50%
✔✔Criminal History or Rap Sheet - ✔✔An arrest record for an individual
✔✔Search Warrant - ✔✔A legal document issued by a judge authorizing the search of a
place and seizure of specified items found there.
✔✔Sending State - ✔✔
