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