Judicial Branch

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