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Differences Between The State And The Federal Court System

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In the United States, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Within the Constitution, a federal system of government has been created where power is shared between the federal and state governments in which both have their own court systems as well as laws (Gluck, 2014). The constitution created two parallel criminal justice systems which add a complexity to the system as a whole (Neubauer & Fradella, 2014). Although it may appear there are two separate court systems, there is actually fifty-two court systems which are made up of the fifty state courts, the local court system of the District of Columbia and the federal court system (Neubauer & Fradella, 2014). Both the federal and individual state systems are structured much like
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