PROBATION OFFICER EXAMINATION TEST 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔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 esence 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 by 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 or an issued submitted for
its judgement.
✔✔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 attorney to defend persons in
litigation who do not have the means to hire their own attorney.
✔✔Alias - ✔✔Indicating one was called by one or the other two names
✔✔Arraign - ✔✔to bring a person to the bar of the court to answer the matter charge
upon him in indictment.
✔✔Preponderance - ✔✔more than 50%
✔✔Criminal History - ✔✔a police 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.
✔✔Defendant - ✔✔The person defending or denying. The party against whom relief or
recovery is sought in an action or suit.
✔✔Expungement - ✔✔The destruction or sealing of records of minors or adults after the
passage of a set period of time or set age and if the person has not committed another
offense.
✔✔Extradition - ✔✔the surrender of one state to another state of an individual accused
or convicted of an offense outside its own territory and within the territorial jurisdiction of
the other which, being competent to try and convict him, demands his surrender.
✔✔Detainer - ✔✔An instrument placed with an agency for the purpose of detaining the
subject presently in their custody who is wanted.
✔✔Grand Jury - ✔✔Jury of 12-13 persons chosen to investigate accusation of crime an
dbring an indictment against the person accused if there is enough evidence for a trial
✔✔Detention - ✔✔The temporary confinement of a minor by public offender pursuant to
law
✔✔Informal Adjustment - ✔✔A type of disposition used primarily for first offenders that
does not involve a court hearing, this is not diversion. A period of no longer than 6
months, except by approval of the juvenile court.
✔✔Parole - ✔✔The administrative release of an offender from prison under the
supervision of a DOC, correction officer. A DOC function , not a judicial function.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔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 esence 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 by 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 or an issued submitted for
its judgement.
✔✔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 attorney to defend persons in
litigation who do not have the means to hire their own attorney.
✔✔Alias - ✔✔Indicating one was called by one or the other two names
✔✔Arraign - ✔✔to bring a person to the bar of the court to answer the matter charge
upon him in indictment.
✔✔Preponderance - ✔✔more than 50%
✔✔Criminal History - ✔✔a police 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.
✔✔Defendant - ✔✔The person defending or denying. The party against whom relief or
recovery is sought in an action or suit.
✔✔Expungement - ✔✔The destruction or sealing of records of minors or adults after the
passage of a set period of time or set age and if the person has not committed another
offense.
✔✔Extradition - ✔✔the surrender of one state to another state of an individual accused
or convicted of an offense outside its own territory and within the territorial jurisdiction of
the other which, being competent to try and convict him, demands his surrender.
✔✔Detainer - ✔✔An instrument placed with an agency for the purpose of detaining the
subject presently in their custody who is wanted.
✔✔Grand Jury - ✔✔Jury of 12-13 persons chosen to investigate accusation of crime an
dbring an indictment against the person accused if there is enough evidence for a trial
✔✔Detention - ✔✔The temporary confinement of a minor by public offender pursuant to
law
✔✔Informal Adjustment - ✔✔A type of disposition used primarily for first offenders that
does not involve a court hearing, this is not diversion. A period of no longer than 6
months, except by approval of the juvenile court.
✔✔Parole - ✔✔The administrative release of an offender from prison under the
supervision of a DOC, correction officer. A DOC function , not a judicial function.
