Judicial Branch in a Flash Name:
A. Complete the Sentence. Use the terms and B. Making Comparisons. Decide whether each
ideas that you learned in this lesson to finish each description fits trial courts only, appellate courts
statement. only, or both, and write the letter of the description
in the correct part of the diagram. The first one is
1. The only court the Constitution creates is
done for you.
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judicial branch
2. The two court systems in the United States are
B C
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federal court system and state court system A
G D E
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3. Two kinds of legal cases are ______________ H
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criminal cases and civil cases
4. The job of the Court of Appeals is
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the job of a court appeal is to review
a trial that the losing side thinks has an error
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5. It’s difficult to take a case to the Supreme
Court because __________________________
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the supreme court chooses which cases to
hear and it doesn't chooses many
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6. If you lose a case in the trial court, you can C. Order in the Court! Number each set of
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appeal it to a higher court events to put the three events in the correct order.
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3
7. If an appellate court affirms a case, it means ____
1
____
2
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that the previous trial was right and the
decision must stay the same
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3
8. If a law is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ____
2
can __________________________________
rule it unconstitutional and if it does ____
1
that's it and only they can reverse it
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2
9. Evidence is used for _____________________ ____
1
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proof by lawyers to prove that their client's ____
3
side of the story is what really happened
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3
10. A trial with no jury is called a _____________
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2
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bench trial ____1
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