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  • State court systems were created by the Constitution of the United States.
    FALSE
    TRUE
  • If a group of people gives the verdict after a trial, that trial was a
    bench trial
    jury trial
  • When you first begin a trial, you will be in an appellate court.
    FALSE
    TRUE
  • When the Court of Appeals affirms a case, it sends the case back to the trial court.
    TRUE
    FALSE
  • It would be easy to prove a case without evidence.
    TRUE
    FALSE
  • If you break a state law, your case will probably be in a state court system.
    TRUE
    FALSE
  • If you go to the Court of Appeals, you will see
    one judge
    three judges
    nine judges
  • The court that gets to decide what is constitutional
    District Court of Appeals
    Supreme Court
    Trial Court
  • The federal court system was created by Congress.
    TRUE
    FALSE
  • The Supreme Court’s power to decide if something is constitutional is called judicial review.
    FALSE
    TRUE
  • If the Court of Appeals remands a case, that means the court says the verdict was good.
    FALSE
    TRUE
  • The Supreme Court is a trial court.
    TRUE
    FALSE
  • The Supreme Court has...
    one justice
    nine justices
    three justices
  • There is only one judge in a trial court.
    FALSE
    TRUE
  • A jury decides the case in a bench trial.
    TRUE
    FALSE
  • When someone is accused of a crime, the type of case is...
    CRIMINAL
    CIVIL
  • A word that means “relating to the rights of citizens”
    civil
    criminal
  • State courts were created by
    each state's constitution
    the U.S. Constitution
  • The decision in a case is called the
    evidence
    bailiff
    verdict
  • The Supreme Court can strike down an unconstitutional law.
    TRUE
    FALSE
  • If an appellate court sends a case back to the trial court, it has
    affirmed the case
    remanded the case
  • If you break a United States law, your case will probably be in
    state court
    federal court
  • At trial, lawyers try to prove their case using
    an appeal
    evidence
  • The Supreme Court must take every case that gets appealed to it.
    FALSE
    TRUE
  • When you ask a higher court to review your case, you are making an appeal.
    TRUE
    FALSE
  • The Supreme Court gets the last word about what the Constitution really says.
    TRUE
    FALSE
  • If the appellate court thinks a decision was wrong, it will...
    affirm the decision
    reverse the case
  • If you appeal a case, you are going to...
    Trial Court
    Court of Appeals
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