Criminal Justice 2 - Assignment

Running head: CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2
CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2
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The United States courts of appeals are the transitional appellate courts of the United
States federal judiciary system. These appellate courts are also termed as Circuit Courts
(Edwards, 2017). The courts are divided into 13 appellate courts which comes below the U.S.
Supreme Court in the court hierarchy list of the Federal Judicial system (Haire & Moyer
2015). The aim of this study is to discuss the role of the Court of Appeal in the judicial
system of the United States.
The Circuit Court in the United States is recognized as the most commanding and
powerful courts in the United States. The Court of Appeal can set guidelines for most of the
regions in the United States of America. The 94 federal judicial districts in the USA are
unified into 12 regional circuits, which is consist of a separate court of appeal. The appellate
court’s task is to analyse the verdict given by the trial court and to determine whether such
given verdict followed requisite principles of law or not (Howard, 2014). As per Article III of
the US Constitution, every Appellate court in the USA consists of three judges. The jury
system of judiciary is not present in case of a Court of Appeal. The Courts of Appeals have a
strong bureaucratic effect on the law of the country.
The U.S. Courts of Appeals were established to exclusively hear the appeal of those
cases where trial courts were unable to provide a satisfactory decision in favour of a party.
The Evarts Act, 1891 gave the U.S. Courts of Appeal requisite jurisdiction to decide over the
decisions of the U.S. district courts and the U.S. Circuit Courts (Davies, 2016). As per one of
the survey report, the Supreme Court of USA reviews 100 to 150 cases out of 7000 cases
submitted before it in each year. Therefore, the decision of the Circuit Court is final or
arbitrary for almost thousands of federal cases in the USA. At present, there exist 179
judgeships on the U.S. Courts of Appeals which was sanctioned by the Congress under title
28 U.S. Code § 43 of the United States Code, which is envisaged in Article III of the U.S.
Constitution. The appointment procedure for the judges of the Court of Appeal is similar to