Across
- 2. person cannot pay money they owe
- 7. provide security and police protection of courthouses
- 9. immune from being sued unless it agrees to be sued
- 11. the sole right to hear a case
- 14. a senator from each state as the nominee and same polictical party
- 16. list of cases to be heard
- 19. overseeing early hearings of a criminal trial
- 21. authority to hear and decide a case
- 22. the case appealled to a higher court
- 23. panel of citizens in court
- 24. order seeking review of lower court cases
- 25. signed by at least five of nine members of court
- 26. the person who the complaint is against
Down
- 1. judges can adapt the meaning of the constitution
- 3. cases that fall under both state and federal jurisdiction
- 4. stress some different of legal reasoning
- 5. person making legal complaint
- 6. written agruements
- 8. person who files an appeal
- 10. minor criminal cases, less than a year jail time
- 12. military holds hearings to decide cases
- 13. previous court ruling
- 15. appointed by the panel of the judges who make up the court of appeals
- 17. held by minority of the justices who don´t agree with the ruling in the case
- 18. the court that first hears it
- 20. a judge should interpret the constitution according to framers