Criminal Justice System and the Courts

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  1. 3. There are 15 of these in Arizona.
  2. 5. Has jurisdiction over all felony cases committed in Maricopa County.
  3. 6. A willful unlawful act.
  4. 8. The highest court in the federal system.
  5. 9. Type of case that deals with an individual's private rights.
  6. 10. A civil violation.
  7. 12. Dictates the methods and the means by which the state proceeds, through the police, public administrators, and the courts, to enforce rights or duties of the substantive law.
  8. 13. Number of Supreme Court justices.
  9. 14. Court system that deals with United States laws.
  10. 16. A guilty mind, or intent.
  11. 18. Document that created the judicial branch.
  12. 20. What an appellate court hears from a lower court.
  13. 21. Means by which judges in Arizona are placed in office.
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  1. 1. Court that hears and decides cases in three judge panels; has jurisdiction in all matters properly appealed from superior court; and reviews all decisions properly appealed to it.
  2. 2. Law created through state and federal legislature.
  3. 4. The Supreme Court's authority to decide what is constitutional, as decided in Marbury v. Madison
  4. 6. Justice of the Peace doesn't not have to be a licensed one of these.
  5. 7. Defines what constitutes criminal conduct subject to prosecution by the state and set forth the punishment for such criminal acts
  6. 11. Means by which federal judges are placed in office.
  7. 15. Two court systems in the United States.
  8. 16. Court that hears cases of city ordinance violations.
  9. 17. Court system that deals with state laws.
  10. 18. Type of case when someone is accused of committing a crime.
  11. 19. The principle that no one can be punished for an act that was not defined as criminal before the person did the act.