US legal System

What is the name for laws that impose criminal responsibility for acts that were not crimes at the time the acts occurred?

• Ex post facto laws
• Habeas corpus laws
• Codes
• Constitutions

The authority to hear a case is called?

• Prior Restraint

• Authorization

• Affirmation

• Jurisdiction

Indictment

• A formal charge.
• A court ruling
• A death sentence
• A request for evidence.

Which is not a level of the federal court sysrtem?

• Supreme Court
• District Courts
• Courts of Appeals
• Special Courts

What is the Court of last resort in all federal opinions?

• Appellate Court
• District Court
• Circuit Court
• The Supreme Court

What is an opinion?

• The views of the litigants in a case.
• The decision of the Court.
• The legal reasoning explaining a desicion
• The jury's decision on a case.

Usually, the Supreme Court has what type of jurisdiction?  (They hear a lot of appeals)

• Original
• Appellate
• Constitutional

A ________ is an interpretation of a law that is used in later trials.

• statute
• precedent
• criminal
• jury

A trial in which there is NO JURY, only a judge who both oversees the courtroom and determines the verdict

• Jury Trial
• Appellate
• Bench Trial
• Civil

A trial where the verdict is determined by a jury, a group of 12 citizens who determine the outcome of the case

• Criminal
• Appellate
• Original
• Jury Trial