Criminal Justice System and the Courts
Across
- 3. There are 15 of these in Arizona.
- 5. Has jurisdiction over all felony cases committed in Maricopa County.
- 6. A willful unlawful act.
- 8. The highest court in the federal system.
- 9. Type of case that deals with an individual's private rights.
- 10. A civil violation.
- 12. Dictates the methods and the means by which the state proceeds, through the police, public administrators, and the courts, to enforce rights or duties of the substantive law.
- 13. Number of Supreme Court justices.
- 14. Court system that deals with United States laws.
- 16. A guilty mind, or intent.
- 18. Document that created the judicial branch.
- 20. What an appellate court hears from a lower court.
- 21. Means by which judges in Arizona are placed in office.
Down
- 1. Court that hears and decides cases in three judge panels; has jurisdiction in all matters properly appealed from superior court; and reviews all decisions properly appealed to it.
- 2. Law created through state and federal legislature.
- 4. The Supreme Court's authority to decide what is constitutional, as decided in Marbury v. Madison
- 6. Justice of the Peace doesn't not have to be a licensed one of these.
- 7. Defines what constitutes criminal conduct subject to prosecution by the state and set forth the punishment for such criminal acts
- 11. Means by which federal judges are placed in office.
- 15. Two court systems in the United States.
- 16. Court that hears cases of city ordinance violations.
- 17. Court system that deals with state laws.
- 18. Type of case when someone is accused of committing a crime.
- 19. The principle that no one can be punished for an act that was not defined as criminal before the person did the act.