Judicial Branch in a Flash

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