Judical Branch and Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Test Review

Unconstitutional

• To extend over or past; to have something in common

• Not consistent with a nations constitution; against highest law

• Enough; satisfactory in amount

• The authority of a trial court to be first to hear a case

Original jurisdiction

• Authority shared by both federal and state courts

• The authority of a trial court to be first to hear a case

• Group of person selected for some service

• A formal charge by a grand jury

Defendant

• The formal response to the charges in complaint.

• The person that the case in against.

• The person that brings charges.

• The final Roman legal code.

"equal justice under the law"

• Defendant pleads guilty to a lesser crime.

• When the court cannot agree on a verdict.

• Refers to the goal of the American court system to treat all people alike.

• a. The system that enforces the criminal law.

Civil Law

• Disputes between two individuals or an individual and the government.

• A law written by a legislative branch of government

• When the court cannot agree on a verdict.

• The punishment to be imposed on the offender

Authority shared by both federal and state courts

• Appellate Jurisdiction

• Statute

• Original Jurisdiction

• Concurrent Jurisdiction

The punishment to be imposed on the offender.

• Summons

• Verdict

• Sentence

• Precedent

A written explanation of a Supreme Court decision; also, in some states, a written interpretation of a state constitution or state laws by the state's attorney general.

• Opinion

• Affidavits

• Contract

• Discovery

The earlier ruling in previous cases.

• Precedent

• Affidavits

• Plaintiff

• Opinion

The person that brings charges.

• Hung Jury

• Plaintiff

• Judge

• lawyer