The Courts
Law
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Jurisdiction
Criminal Cases
100
The length of time justices serve for
What is life
100
Statutory Law
What are laws passed by the legislative branch
100
common law
What is The laws made by judges as they solve individual cases
100
The Supreme Court has these Jurisdiction
What is original and appellate Jurisdiction
100
the amount of cases that end in a plea bargain
What is 90%
200
The reasons that Justices and Judges are appointed
What is Party affiliation, Judicial philosophy, Legal background
200
Constitutional Law
What are our basic rights and laws that we have to follo
200
examples of petty offenses
What is tickets, fines, citations
200
The two types of Jurisdiction
What is Original and appellate Jurisdiction
200
the two types of juries
What is grand jury and petit jury
300
The three levels in the Federal Court system
What is district courts, appeals court, Supreme Court
300
The three types of Crimes
What are petty offenses, misdemeanors, felonies
300
The steps in becoming a juror
What is being called to duty, interview process
300
Cases that the Supreme Court deals with
What are constitutional issues and issues between states
300
What they prosecution must do
What is prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the person committed the crime
400
The three things an appeals court can do
What is Uphold the decision, Overturn the decision, Send the case back down to the lower courts
400
the reason we have civil cases
What are two people have a disagreement and are forced to go to court to resolve it
400
Constitutional Courts
What is a court that tries both civil and criminal cases at the federal level
400
When state and federal courts have jurisdiction
What is Concurrent Jurisdiction
400
punishment for a misdemeanor
What is fines and less than a year in jail
500
The issues that legislative courts deal with
What is Taxes, Court of appeals to the armed forces, Deal with overseas territories, Claims courts
500
The 4 principles of our legal system
Equal Justice, Due Process, Adversary System, Presumption of innocence
500
Laws that spells out how the government is run and procedures for that government
What is administrative law
500
These are all the areas Federal Courts have Jurisdiction over
What is Federal laws, Treaties,Interpretation of the United States Constitution,Bankruptcy, Two or more state governments, US government agencies
500
The steps in a criminal trial
What is Investigation and arrest, Grand Jury, Plea Bargaining, Arraignment and Pleas, The Trial, The Decision and Sentencing
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