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