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The only court that the constitution created is the... |
Supreme Court |
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The Two court systems in the united states are |
federal court state court |
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Two kinds of legal cases are |
criminal/civil |
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The job of the court of appeals is |
to overlook the losing side of a previous trial and check for mistakes |
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its difficult to take a cae to the supreme court because |
only a few cases are accepted and most of them are disputes about laws going against the constitution |
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if you lose a case in the trial court you can |
take it to the appellate court if you think there was a (legal) mistake made |
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If an appellate court affirms a case it means |
let the courts decision stand/stay |
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if a law is unconstitutional the supreme court can |
once they've said its unconstitutional that it/only they can reverse the decision |
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evidence is used for |
the jury to look at and decide what happened/lawyers use it to prove their client not guilty |
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a trial with no jury is called a |
bench trial |
