Judicial Branch Vocab

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