Law

To which court can the verdict from a state trial be appealed? (Use your state as an example.) To which court can the verdict from a federal trial court be appealed?

The U.S. Supreme Court has, through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, incorporated many of the protections and prohibitions contained in the Bill of Rights. By doing so, the Supreme Court has required that state and local governments obey those portions of the Bill of Rights that have been incorporated. Consider the following: […]