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judicial branch
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adjudicate | decide |
| criminal law | protects from the wrong doing of an induviual |
| civil law | deals with relations between induvisuals |
| felony | verry serious crime punishable by sentence of more than 1 year(murder) |
| misdemeanor | lesss severe punishment |
| supsreme court | higest federal court in the united states |
| Adjudicate | decide |
| lenght of term for supreme court | 12 years |
| criminal law | protects from the wrong doing of an induviual |
| numhber of judges in the supreme court | 9 justices |
| civil law | deals with relations between induvisuals |
| lenght of term for trial cort | |
| numhber of judges | |
| felony | verry serious crime punishable by sentence of more than 1 year(murder) |
| superior court | |
| misdemeanor | lesss severe punishment |
| supsreme court | |
| number of justices | |
| lenght of term | |
| juvinale court | |
| court of appeals | |
| magistrate court | |
| numhber of judges | |
| lenght of term | |
| trial court | |
| grand jury | |
| superior court | |
| state court | |
| probate court | |
| civil cases | |
| juvinale court | |
| crimnial cases | |
| magistrate court | |
| plantiff | |
| municioal and special courts | |
| defendant | |
| due process | |
| crimnial cases | |
| grand jury | |
| trial jury | |
| civil cases | |
| crimnial cases | |
| plantiff | |
| defendant | |
| burden of proof | |
| felony | |