state courts of limited jurisdiction - courts that have jurisdiction over misdemeanors and conduct preliminary investigations of felony charges, courts of general jurisdiction - states or federal courts that have jurisdiction over felony offenses and more serious civil cases, appellate court - a court that reconciders a case that has already been tried to determine whether the measures used complied with accepted rules of criminal procedure and were in accordance with constitutional doctrines, court of last resort - court of last resort, writ of certiorari - an order of a superior court requesting that the record of am inferior court be brought forward for review or inspection, landmark decision - a decision handed down by the US supreme court that becomes the law of land and serves as a precedent for resolving similar legal issues, jury trial - the process of deciding a case by a group of persons selected and sworn in to serve as jurors at a criminal trial, often as a 6-12 person jury, US magistrate judge - 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 and over certain misdemeanor cases, Missouri Plan - a method of picking judges through nonpartisan elections as a way to ensure that judges adhere to high standards of judicial performance, prosecutor - representatives of the state in criminal proceedings, public defender - an attorney usually employed by the government to represent poor persons accused of a crime, adversarial procedure - the process of publicly pitting the prosecution and the defense against one another in pursuit of the truth, Sixth Amendment - the amendment containing carious criminal trial rights such as the right to public trial, the right to trial by jury and the right to confrontation of witnesses, Gideon v. Wainwright - the 1963 us supreme court case that granted counsel to indigent defendants in felony prosecutions, assigned counsel - a lawyer appointed by the court to represent a defendant in a criminal case because the person is too poor to hire counsel, contract system - (attorney)- providing counsel to indigent offenders by having attorneys under contract to the county handle all such cases,

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