CJ 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Appellate Jurisdiction

• School: App State
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 2150
• Professor: Robert Norris

Document Summary

Started one single opinion: job is to make policy, it is an appellate jurisdiction court, 9 justices, they can have as many as 10,000 cases brought to them a year. They don"t fully review all of them: per curium opinion. Not a full hearing: writ of cert. Power to review and overturn lower courts: 70-90 cases are actually heard every year. But there are attorneys for both sides. Each attorney usually speaks for about 30 minutes: justices can interrupt by questioning or challenging. Conferences/ deliberations: discuss the case and court petitions, locked door, nobody knows what truly goes on, chief justice has seniority. Opinions: chief justice or seniority decides who writes the opinion, a draft is circulated. Typically they try to suede people opinions to make it more unifying: changes and edits are made. Majority opinion: what is ruled and why it is ruled. Concurring opinion: people who voted with the majority, but not with the reasoning of the majority.