Court System Paper

Court System Paper

CJA 204

Court System Paper

The court systems have been around for hundreds of years. Our court system has come a very long way since then. I mean back then our first court was actually back in the 1789 which was small and hierarchy compared to the was courts are now days.

In the 1789 the first bill was put into action. From this we got what is called "the original American court system for resolving criminal and civil dispute."( Schmalleger, 2009.

Our state courts have developed several models. They have followed the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789, which later became the reorganization Act of 1801, which has made more models for the state courts. They follow the federal model development three-tiered structure. They are 1.) Trial courts of limited...