D. Crossword Puzzle - Judicial Branch in a Flash

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Across
  1. 2. When an appellate court upholds a verdict
  2. 6. People or things that can prove one side’s version of what happened
  3. 8. Choosing between the federal or state court system depends on the __involved in the case
  4. 10. What appellate judges look for when they review a case
  5. 12. Type of case about someone accused of committing a crime
  6. 15. Asking an appellate court to review a case
  7. 17. Something that goes against the Constitution
  8. 18. Court system that deals with United States
  9. 21. Group of people who decide a case after hearing the
  10. 23. Number of court systems in the U.S.
  11. 24. The document that created the judicial branch
  12. 26. When an appellate court rejects a verdict
  13. 28. This court gets to choose which cases to hear
Down
  1. 1. Court system that deals with state laws
  2. 3. Type of case relating to peoples’ rights
  3. 4. The lowest court in the federal system
  4. 5. When there is more than one judge, the group of judges is called
  5. 7. Taking a case through the court system is like an
  6. 9. Type of trial that has no jury
  7. 11. The Supreme Court’s power to decide what is constitutional
  8. 13. The first court to hear a case
  9. 14. Type of court that reviews the trial court’s decision
  10. 16. What a judge wears
  11. 19. What an appellate court does with a case
  12. 20. One kind of evidence
  13. 22. One kind of evidence
  14. 25. Number of justices on the Supreme Court
  15. 27. When an appellate court sends a case back to the trial court