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JOSEPH PETROSINO – was member of the New York
Police Department during the 1900s. He was the
head of the Italian Squad. Through extensive
intelligence network, he was credited to smash and
neutralization of the Black Society.

JOYRIDING – theft and use of a motor vehicle solely
to drive it, after which it is abandoned; usually
committed by teenagers.

JUAN VUCETICH – was an Argentinian police officer
who established his own system of fingerprint
classification and in 1891 founded in La Plata,
Argentina, the world’s first fingerprint bureau.

JUDICAL ADMISSION – statements made by a party
involving the exercising of judgment.

JUDICIAL – any act done under direction of a court:
involving the exercise of judgment.

JUDICIAL CONFESSION – a confession made by a
party, such a confession being admissible in
evidence against the party.

JUDICIAL NOTICE – an evidentiary shortcut
whereby the necessity of formally proving the truth
of a particular matter is eliminated when that truth
is not in dispute; it means no more than that the
court will bring to its aid and consider, without
proof of the facts its knowledge of those matters of
public concern which are known by all well
informed persons.

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