A public official appointed to decide cases in a court of law is called a . The is the person who files a lawsuit.

A is used when rulings set forth earlier in similar cases.

Crimes that are punishable by more than one year in prison are called .

When people are typically punished when they break a law and are convicted of a crime, it is called.

A(n) is a panel of citizens who participate in the justice system that decide whether the accused is guilty or not and, if guilty, what the punishment should be.

Minor crimes for which a person can be fined a small sum of money or jailed for up to a year are called .

Cases usually with original jurisdiction goes to a .

The person being sued is called the .

A complaint may ask the court to order the defendant to pay the plaintiff a sum of money, called , to repay the plaintiff for the loss.

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is where a party who lost a case of a lower court asks a judge to review that decision and reverse it.

The government starts the legal process of against the defendant.