State Courts

True or False: Federal and state courts handle both criminal and civil cases

• True

• False

What is Criminal Law?

• deal with disputes between individuals, businesses, and the government

• violations of the law that harm individuals or the community

What is Civil Law?

• violations of the law that harm individuals or the community

• deal with disputes between individuals, businesses, and the government

In civil cases, people who file the complaint, or lawsuit, are referred to as the

• Defendant

• Jury

• Plaintiff

In small towns and rural areas, is presided by whom?

• Judge Judy

• A lower state judge

• Justice of the Peace

Large cities have many ____ that are divided in multiple smaller courts that deal with specific issues

• State Supreme Courts

• Traffic Courts

• Municipal Courts

• Supreme Court

True or False: In most lower courts the judge is the one who makes the decision without a jury

• False

• True

True or False: Appeals Courts have no juries, a panel of judges, determine if the accused person got a fair trail, and appeal the case to the next level

• True

• False

What is the highest court in the state court system?

• Lower Court

• Appeals Court

• Municipal Court

• State Supreme Court

True or False: Courts and Jails are overcrowded and need solutions to fix major issues.

• False

• True