Unit 3: US and NC Legal System

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Across
  1. 4. Law enforcement agencies that respond to, detect, and prevent crime.
  2. 7. The power of an appellate court to review, amend and overrule decisions of a trial court or other lower tribunal.
  3. 9. The right of a court to hear a case for the first time.
  4. 12. Laws that protect our general safety, and ensure our rights as citizens against abuses by other people, by organizations, and by the government itself. We have laws to help provide for our general safety.
  5. 13. The branch of government that is endowed with the authority to interpret and apply the law, adjudicate legal disputes, and otherwise administer justice.
  6. 16. A system of law concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes.
  7. 18. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime.
  8. 22. The steps required for a proposed bill to become a law; Congress process included.
  9. 23. Laws that require both a severe violent felony and two other previous convictions to serve a mandatory life sentence in prison.
  10. 24. A temporary, ad hoc panel composed of House and Senate conferees which is formed for the purpose of reconciling differences in legislation that has passed both chambers.
Down
  1. 1. A facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state
  2. 2. A jury, typically of twelve people, who try the final issue of fact in civil or criminal cases and pronounce a verdict.
  3. 3. A wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal liability.
  4. 5. The legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.
  5. 6. A set of interrelated procedures and roles for deciding disputes by an authoritative person or persons whose decisions are regularly obeyed.
  6. 8. The body of law that regulates the operation and procedures of government agencies.
  7. 10. An action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.
  8. 11. A permanent committee that meets regularly.
  9. 14. A jury, typically of twenty-three people, selected to examine the validity of an accusation before trial.
  10. 15. Within some criminal justice systems, a preliminary hearing, preliminary examination, preliminary inquiry, evidentiary hearing or probable cause hearing is a proceeding, after a criminal complaint has been filed by the prosecutor, to determine whether there is enough evidence to require a trial.
  11. 17. A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.
  12. 19. An indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session.
  13. 20. The system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs.
  14. 21. The body of rules, doctrines, and practices that govern the operation of political communities.