United States Court System
Abstract
The court system in the United States serves as a tool to ensure that the society keep certain order and respect the law created by the Legislative and Executive power. The court system will ensure that crimes receive the deserve sanction applying the law (severe or not that severe, depending on the type of the crime) (Siegel L.J., Schmalleger F., Worrall J.L. 2011) How fair is the court system? How the court system that is used in today 's America was created or developed? How it works? A case that was presented by the United States media recently was the case George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman killed a young black boy named Trevon Martin during his community watch period. This case brought a lot of media attention …show more content…
government is a federal state divided by the State and the Federal power. This means that the laws in the U.S are principally made by the federal government, but at the same time the U.S. Government gives freedom to the states to create their own laws. The court system works the same way, with a dual court system, separating the federal courts from the state courts. Sometimes this dual system can create confusion when both laws cross each other. Some examples of state courts are traffic courts, trial courts, appellate courts, and supreme courts. The federal court system has trial courts, appellate courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court. (Siegel L.J., Schmalleger F., Worrall J.L. …show more content…
The U.S. Code has the federal law, and the states have their own laws. The constitution gives structure on how the government will operate and also gives guidelines on the civil rights. The U.S. has a federal constitution and each state has its own constitution. The Role of the court on these times has two task: adjudication – the process of seeing a case to decide who will be responsible for an alleged criminal offense, and to resolve if this suspect is guilty or not; also other courts will make sure that the lower courts made the right decision (appellate courts)– and oversight the work of the criminal justice system (for example, the police job on the streets). (Siegel L.J., Schmalleger F., Worrall J.L.
The court system in the United States serves as a tool to ensure that the society keep certain order and respect the law created by the Legislative and Executive power. The court system will ensure that crimes receive the deserve sanction applying the law (severe or not that severe, depending on the type of the crime) (Siegel L.J., Schmalleger F., Worrall J.L. 2011) How fair is the court system? How the court system that is used in today 's America was created or developed? How it works? A case that was presented by the United States media recently was the case George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman killed a young black boy named Trevon Martin during his community watch period. This case brought a lot of media attention …show more content…
government is a federal state divided by the State and the Federal power. This means that the laws in the U.S are principally made by the federal government, but at the same time the U.S. Government gives freedom to the states to create their own laws. The court system works the same way, with a dual court system, separating the federal courts from the state courts. Sometimes this dual system can create confusion when both laws cross each other. Some examples of state courts are traffic courts, trial courts, appellate courts, and supreme courts. The federal court system has trial courts, appellate courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court. (Siegel L.J., Schmalleger F., Worrall J.L. …show more content…
The U.S. Code has the federal law, and the states have their own laws. The constitution gives structure on how the government will operate and also gives guidelines on the civil rights. The U.S. has a federal constitution and each state has its own constitution. The Role of the court on these times has two task: adjudication – the process of seeing a case to decide who will be responsible for an alleged criminal offense, and to resolve if this suspect is guilty or not; also other courts will make sure that the lower courts made the right decision (appellate courts)– and oversight the work of the criminal justice system (for example, the police job on the streets). (Siegel L.J., Schmalleger F., Worrall J.L.