LOUISIANA POST COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Public Officer, Public Office, Public Employee, or Position of Public Authority -
✔✔Means and applies to any executive, ministerial, administrative, judicial, or
legislative officer, office, employee or position of authority respectively, of the state of
Louisiana or any parish, municipality, district, or other political subdivision thereof, or of
any agency, board, commission, department or institution of said state, parish,
municipality, district, or other political subdivision.
✔✔Pyromania - ✔✔A COMPULSION to set fires.
✔✔Reasonable Doubt - ✔✔That state of a case which, after the entire comparison and
consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in the condition that they
cannot say they feel an abiding conviction to a MORAL CERTAINTY of the truth to
charge.
✔✔Rebut - ✔✔To contradict.
✔✔Rebuttal - ✔✔The introduction of CONTRADICTING testimony, the showing that
statements made by a witness are not true; the part of the trial at which such evidence
may be introduced.
, ✔✔Recidivist - ✔✔A repeater in crime; a habitual offender.
✔✔Rigor Mortis - ✔✔Temporary RIGIDITY of muscles occurring after death.
✔✔Schizophrenia - ✔✔A psychosis characterized by withdrawal from REALITY with
highly variable accompanying affective, behavioral and intellectual disturbances. May
be accompanied by delusions or hallucinations.
✔✔Search Warrant - ✔✔An order, in writing, issues by judicial authority, in the name of
the state, directing a law enforcement, officer to search for PERSONAL PROPERTY
and, if found to bring it before the court.
✔✔Self-Defense - ✔✔The protection of one's own person, against an attempted injury
by another. There must be some REASONABLE BELIEF or immediate danger.
✔✔Sequestration - ✔✔A rule of a court requiring all witnesses to be SEPERATED, the
defense from the prosecution and remain outside of the court room until each is called,
except it does not apply to a plaintiff or defendant.
✔✔Slander - ✔✔Defamatory spoken words tending to prejudice another in
REPUTATION, business or means or livelihood.
✔✔Stare Decisis - ✔✔The doctrine that when a court, of the state, has once laid down a
principal of law as applicable to certain facts, it will ADHERE to the principal and apply it
to future cases where the facts are substantially the same.
✔✔States Evidence - ✔✔Testimony, given by an ACCOMPLICE or participant in a
crime, tending to convict others.
✔✔Statute - ✔✔A written law passed by the legislature.
✔✔Stay - ✔✔A STOPPING of a judicial proceeding by a court order.
✔✔Subpoena - ✔✔A process which would cause a witness or other person to appear in
court at a specified time and place. A LEGAL court order.
✔✔Substantiate - ✔✔To VERIFY; establish the truth of a matter by adequate evidence.
✔✔Summons - ✔✔A signed request, directing a person to APPEAR in court at a stated
time and place.
✔✔Testimony - ✔✔Evidence given by a competent witness, under oath, as
distinguished from evidence derived from writings, and other sources; may be verbal or
written.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Public Officer, Public Office, Public Employee, or Position of Public Authority -
✔✔Means and applies to any executive, ministerial, administrative, judicial, or
legislative officer, office, employee or position of authority respectively, of the state of
Louisiana or any parish, municipality, district, or other political subdivision thereof, or of
any agency, board, commission, department or institution of said state, parish,
municipality, district, or other political subdivision.
✔✔Pyromania - ✔✔A COMPULSION to set fires.
✔✔Reasonable Doubt - ✔✔That state of a case which, after the entire comparison and
consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in the condition that they
cannot say they feel an abiding conviction to a MORAL CERTAINTY of the truth to
charge.
✔✔Rebut - ✔✔To contradict.
✔✔Rebuttal - ✔✔The introduction of CONTRADICTING testimony, the showing that
statements made by a witness are not true; the part of the trial at which such evidence
may be introduced.
, ✔✔Recidivist - ✔✔A repeater in crime; a habitual offender.
✔✔Rigor Mortis - ✔✔Temporary RIGIDITY of muscles occurring after death.
✔✔Schizophrenia - ✔✔A psychosis characterized by withdrawal from REALITY with
highly variable accompanying affective, behavioral and intellectual disturbances. May
be accompanied by delusions or hallucinations.
✔✔Search Warrant - ✔✔An order, in writing, issues by judicial authority, in the name of
the state, directing a law enforcement, officer to search for PERSONAL PROPERTY
and, if found to bring it before the court.
✔✔Self-Defense - ✔✔The protection of one's own person, against an attempted injury
by another. There must be some REASONABLE BELIEF or immediate danger.
✔✔Sequestration - ✔✔A rule of a court requiring all witnesses to be SEPERATED, the
defense from the prosecution and remain outside of the court room until each is called,
except it does not apply to a plaintiff or defendant.
✔✔Slander - ✔✔Defamatory spoken words tending to prejudice another in
REPUTATION, business or means or livelihood.
✔✔Stare Decisis - ✔✔The doctrine that when a court, of the state, has once laid down a
principal of law as applicable to certain facts, it will ADHERE to the principal and apply it
to future cases where the facts are substantially the same.
✔✔States Evidence - ✔✔Testimony, given by an ACCOMPLICE or participant in a
crime, tending to convict others.
✔✔Statute - ✔✔A written law passed by the legislature.
✔✔Stay - ✔✔A STOPPING of a judicial proceeding by a court order.
✔✔Subpoena - ✔✔A process which would cause a witness or other person to appear in
court at a specified time and place. A LEGAL court order.
✔✔Substantiate - ✔✔To VERIFY; establish the truth of a matter by adequate evidence.
✔✔Summons - ✔✔A signed request, directing a person to APPEAR in court at a stated
time and place.
✔✔Testimony - ✔✔Evidence given by a competent witness, under oath, as
distinguished from evidence derived from writings, and other sources; may be verbal or
written.
