Judicial Branch

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