Criminal Justice Players
Responsible for gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses after a crime occurs.
Who is a police investigator?
Most crimes are tried in these type of courts.
What are state courts?
This is the highest source of law in the U.S.; no other law can conflict with it.
What is Constitutional law?
This is the question that is addressed by a court in a specific case.
What is the issue?
Person who has been charged with a crime.
Who is a defendant?
If a crime is committed on federal property, it would be tried in this type of court.
What is a federal court?
This type of law consists of written codes enacted by bodies with legislative or quasi-legislative powers.
What is statutory law?
What are the facts of a case?
Responsible for presenting exculpatory and/or mitigating evidence on behalf of a defendant.
Who is a defense attorney?
This type of court reviews the legal decisions of the judge during a trial.
What is an appellate court?
This type of law is derived from written opinions by judges in specific cases.
What is case law?
This is the decision made by a court in a case.
What is the holding?
Typically, he 'trier of fact' in a criminal trial.
What is a jury?
This court can review decisions of state courts, only if there is a Constitutional issue involved.
What is the Supreme Court (of the United States)?
What is administrative law?
This is the court's explanation of why they made their holding.
What is the court's reasoning?
Person who is responsible for supervising the terms of release for a person who has previously been incarcerated.
Who is a parole officer?
This concept refers to a court's authority to hear a case, based on subject matter or geographic location.
What is jurisdiction?
This refers to case law that was inherited from the British legal system.
What is the common law?
This is the part of a court's opinion that will be applied by other court's in similar cases.
What is a rule or test?