Court System
Criminal Trials
• Grand Jury
• Petit Jury – 12 jurors
• 3 Judge Panel
Voir Dire
• The process of selecting jurors
• State Court - Attorney’s
• Federal Court – Judges
• Peremptory Challenges
Court Process
1. Grand Jury
2. Indictment
3. Bill of Information
4. Bail
5. Jury of your Peers
6. No Self-incrimination
7. Assistance to Council
8. Confront Witnesses
9. Verdict of the Jury
10. Fine
11. Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Statutory
• Laws adopted by legal
authority
• Precedence
• OH Revised Code
• U.S. Code
• Municipal Ordinances
Common Law
• No written law as foundation
• Judicial Power
• Unifies all other types
Administrative
• Written rules that
supplement statutes
Criminal v Civil Law
• Criminal • Civil -
Degrees of Crime
• Homicide
• Non criminal homicide
• Justifiable or excusable
• Execution
• War
Degrees of Crime
• Criminal Homicide
• 1st Degree
• 2nd Degree
• 3rd Degree
• 4th Degree/Voluntary
Manslaughter
• Involuntary Manslaughter
Civil Trials
• Petit Jury – 8 jurors in Ohio
Torts
• Legal duty owed one person to
another
• Breach of legal duty
• Proximate cause of injury or loss
• Injury or loss suffered by the plaintiff