Court Structure
This trial Court has jurisdiction over Class C misdemeanors that are given by Amarillo city employees within the City limits of Amarillo.
What is the Amarillo Municipal Court?
A court must have this in order to have authority to hear and decide a case.
What is jurisdiction?
The person that transcribes (types) every word said in the trial.
Who is the Court Reporter?
This is the process where both attorneys question the jury pool to determine whether or not any one particular jury pool members is biased.
What is Voir Dire?
A statement serves as a road map for how this attorney thinks the case will proceed.
What is an opening statement?
This trial Court has jurisdiction over felonies.
What is the District Court?
A court has this type of jurisdiction if it has authority over the ground that the case happened on.
What is physical/geographical jurisdiction?
The person who represents the State and tries to prove the Defendant guilty.
Who is the prosecutor?
Their job is to give a neutral decision on guilt or innocence.
What is the Jury.
Asking questions of the other sides witnesses.
What is Cross Examination?
If you think that you did not get a fair trial at the trial court level, you may appeal to this court.
What is the Court of Appeals?
In order to have authority to decide a case, a Court must have both physical jurisdiction and this.
What is Subject Matter Jurisdiction?
The person whose job it is to make sure that the trial is conducted in a fair manner and according to the rules.
Who is the Judge?
If either one of the attorneys does not like a potential juror, and the Judge will not remove that juror for cause, that attorney may use this to remove that juror from the jury panel without having to give a reason (limited in number).
What is a Preemptory Strike?
Asking questions of your own witness.
What is Direct Examination?
This is the Court of Last Resort for criminal cases in Texas.
What is the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals?
You have a friend who is stopped in Potter County and charged with a Class B misdemeanor for possession of less than two ounces of weed. The Court that has jurisdiction over this case is called.
What is the Potter County Court at Law?
The person whose job it is to keep order in the court room and provide security for the proceedings.
Who is the Bailiff?
When deciding whether a criminal suspect is guilty or innocent, the jury (regardless of size) must vote this way.
What is unanimously? All the same way.
This statement or speech sums up the evidence and is an argument as to why you should win.
What is a closing statement?
This is the Court of Last Resort for civil cases in Texas.
What is the Texas Supreme Court?
The court that has jurisdiction over a traffic ticket given by an Amarillo PD officer in Amarillo, Potter Couty, TX is
What is the Amarillo Municipal Court?
This can best be described as a system where the Judge acts as a referee between two opposing attorneys, each of whom is fighting their best to win the case.
What is the Adversary Process?
The jury can not reach an agreement on a verdict of guilty or innocent after dutifully deliberating. This is called a ________________, and could lead to a mistrial.
What ids a Hung Jury?
The final judgement of the court in a criminal trial.
What is the Verdict?