The Judicial Branch Check for Understanding

The goal of the judicial branch is to:

• make the laws

• ensure the laws are fairly enforced

When someone is accused of a crime, the type of case it is:

• criminal

• civil

If you appeal a case, you are going to:

• Appellate court

• Trial court

The court that gets to decide what is and isn't constitutional:

• Supreme Court

• Court of Appeals

If the appellate court thinks a decision is wrong, it will:

• affirm the decision

• reverse the decision

If a group of people gives the verdict after a trial, that trial was a:

• Jury trial

• Bench trial

A word that means “relating to the rights of citizens”

• Civil

• Criminal

The Supreme Court has:

• 3 judges

• 9 judges

If an appellate court sends a case back to the trial court, it has:

• affirmed the case

• remanded the case

If you go to the Court of Appeals, you will see

• 3 judges

• 1 judge