Judicial Branch in a Flash

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