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The Jefferson County Circuit Court is the largest single unified trial court in Kentucky. [2] [3] Appeals from decisions of the Circuit Courts are made to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the state intermediate appellate court, which may be further appealed to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
A citizen's right to a trial by jury is a central feature of the United States Constitution. [1] It is considered a fundamental principle of the American legal system. Laws and regulations governing jury selection and conviction/acquittal requirements vary from state to state (and are not available in courts of American Samoa), but the fundamental right itself is mentioned five times in the ...
Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so—may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race.
It took the judge and attorneys in Wisconsin just one day to choose the panel of 20 — 12 jurors and eight alternates — for Rittenhouse’s trial, but legal experts say the speedy process doesn ...
The Kentucky Circuit Court with jurisdiction over Jefferson County, Kentucky, includes the city of Louisville, Kentucky.In 1991, the Family Court was established as a separate division of the Jefferson County Circuit Court, and is tasked with handling all family law matters.
Courts of Kentucky include: Kentucky Court of Justice. Under an amendment to the Kentucky Constitution passed by the state's voters in 1975, [1] judicial power in Kentucky is "vested exclusively in one Court of Justice", divided into the following: [2] Kentucky Supreme Court [3] Kentucky Court of Appeals [4] Kentucky Circuit Courts (57 circuits ...
A former Boyle County sheriff’s deputy was found guilty of criminal civil rights violations and obstruction of justice by a federal jury Monday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Jan. 20—The first Monongalia County grand jury of 2024 returned 97 indictments for 85 individuals during the session held Jan. 10-12 at the Monongalia County Justice Center. This is a ...