Judicial Branch Crossword

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