Trial Courts
This individual ensures the rules of the courtroom are followed.
What is a judge?
This is the age requirement for jury duty in the United States.
What is 18 years old?
This organization is also known as "The highest court in the land."
What is the Supreme Court?
This is the number of justices on the supreme court.
What is 9?
In a criminal trial, this individual represents the interests of the state.
What is a prosecutor?
Employers are required by law to provide this to any citizen called for jury duty.
What is time off work?
Federal cases begin in this court.
What is the U.S. district court?
This group decides the outcome (or verdict) in the average criminal trial.
What is a jury?
Unlike the Inquisitional system used in certain European nations, the United states uses this system in trials.
What is an adversarial system?
This is how a potential juror can be removed from a trial after justifying the removal to a judge.
What is removal for cause?
A lawyer must file this before a court case can be re-tried by a higher court.
What is an appeal?
This is the name of a legal professional representing the interests of an individual or group.
What is an attorney/lawyer?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a trial by jury in criminal cases.
What is the 6th Amendment?
An attorney may use this to remove a potential juror before a trial, without justification.
What is a peremptory challenge?
This is the second highest court in a certain state.
What is the intermediate Court of Appeals?
This is written by Supreme Court Justices who disagree with the majority ruling.
What is a dissenting opinion?
This is how a criminal trial can be settled without and actual trial.
What is a plea deal?
This is the official name for the process of screening jurors prior to a trial.
What is Voir Dire?
This is the term Mr. Donovan uses to describe an appeal.
What is a legal do-over?
These are the only participants during an appeal.
Who are the attorney's and a judge?