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