Across
- 2. An official in a court of law who keeps order, looks after prisoners, etc.
- 3. The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
- 6. A tribunal presided over by a judge, judges, or a magistrate in civil and criminal cases.
- 7. The institution and conducting of legal proceedings against someone in respect of a criminal charge.
- 9. The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
Down
- 1. Decides the constitutionality of federal laws and resolves other disputes about federal laws.
- 4. A public official appointed to decide cases in a court of law.
- 5. A body of people (typically twelve in number) sworn to give a verdict in a legal case on the basis of evidence submitted to them in court.
- 8. A formal examination of evidence before a judge, and typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings.