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