What is the person that conrols the presentation of evidence at the trial and argue the merits of their side of the case. they do not themselves supply information about the alleged criminal activity.
100
the 1963 U.S. supreme court case that granted counsel to indigent defendants in felony prosecutions.
What is Gideon V. Wainwright?
100
Supreme Court
What is the highest court of the united states?
100
Tuesday, February 2, 1790
What is the date the Supreme Court first met?
200
Assigned Counsel
What is a lawyer appointed by the court to represent a defendent in a criminal case because the person is not financially stable enough to hire their own.
200
Public Defender
What is an attorney usually employed by the government to represent poor persons accused of a crime.
200
a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
Drug and gun courts
What is the two speciatly courts.
200
New York City at the Exchange Building
What is the place where the Supreme Court first met?
300
Adversarial Procedure
What is the process of publicly putting the prosecution and the defense against one another in the pursuit of the truth.
300
Judge
What is the name of the head of the court?
300
Sixth Amendment
What is the U.S. constitutional amendment contaning various criminal trials rights, such as the right to public trial, the right to trial by jury, and the right of confrontation of witnesses?
300
Domestic relations court
What is also known as family court or juvenile court?
300
October 7, 1935
What is the date the Supreme Court Building first opened?
400
A way of picking the judges through nonpartisan elections as a way to ensure that judges adhere to high standards of judicial performance.
What is the Missouri Plan?
400
Representative of the state (executive branch) in criminal proceeding's advocate for the states case- the charge- in the adversary trial.
What is the Procecuter?
400
Miranda v. Arizona
What is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which passed 5–4. The Court held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to interrogation by a defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning and of the right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police, and that the defendant not only understood these rights, but voluntarily waived them.
400
Lowest courts in judicial hiearchy limited in jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases.
What is Justice of the Peace and Police Magistrate?
400
Has a Justice ever been impeached?
What is Yes, Samuel Chase
500
An order of a superior court requesting that the record of an inferior court (or administrative body) be brought forward for review or inspection.
What is Writ of Cetiorari
500
A federal trial judge who is appointed by a district court judge and who presides over various civil cases with consent of the parties and over certain misdemeanor cases.
What is the U.S Magistrate Judge?
500
Fifth Amendment
What is the amendment that requires that felonies be tried only upon indictment by a grand jury
500
Superior Court
What is the highest trial court with general jurisdiction. some courts call it circuit court.