Lesson 1: Building the Foundation
Handout 7

Answers: Which Court?

  1. Trial court: only trial courts have witnesses who testify.

  2. Appellate court: trial courts have a single judge and appellate courts have a panel of judges.

  3. Trial court: juries operate only in trial courts.

  4. Appellate court: Monica is asking to have the decision imposed in the lower court set aside.

  5. Appellate court: there is more than one judge deciding the case.

  6. Appellate court: if a new trial has been granted, an earlier trial must have been reviewed.

  7. Trial court: only trial courts have witnesses.

  8. Trial court: only trial courts have evidence admitted.

  9. Appellate court: more than one judge signed the decision.