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