Courts that have jurisdiction over misdemeanors - State Courts of limited Jurisdiction, state or federal courts that have jurisdiction over felony offenses - Courts of general Jurisdiction, a court that reconsiders a case that has already been tried to determine whether the measures used complied with accepted rules of criminal procedure - Appellate Court, a court that handles the final appeal on a matter - Court of last resort, An order of a superior court requesting that the record of an inferior court be brought forward for review - Writ of Certiorari, a decision handed down by the US Supreme Court that becomes the law of the land - Landmark Decision, The process of deciding a case by a group of persons selected and sworn in to serve as jurors at a criminal trial - Jury trial, a federal trial judge who is appointed by a district court judge and who presides over various civil cases with the consent of the parties - US magistrate judge, a method of picking judges through nonpartisan elections as a way to ensure that judges adhere to high standards of judicial performance - Missouri Plan, a lawyer who works for a state and is responsible for proving in court that the suspect committed the crime they're accused of - Prosecutor, an attorney that represents a person that is accused of a crime - Public defender, the process of publicly pitting the prosecution and the defense against one another to pursuit of the truth - Adversarial procedure, the right to public trial, the right to trial by jury, and the right to confrontation of witnesses - Sixth amendment, 1963 US Supreme Court case that granted counsel to indigent defendants in felony prosecutions. - Gideon v. Wainwright, private lawyers designated by the courts to handle particular cases - Assigned Counsel, set of rules that govern the formation and enforcement of contracts - Contract System,

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