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