After completing the research for our assignment for the week 1, I found it be very informative. By learning what the judicial court structure for the state of Georgia is and how each court functions and what each courts responsibility is.

Georgia’s Judicial Court system consists of two levels of courts. One level is the Trial –level courts, and the other is the two appellate-level courts. Within the operation of the trial-level courts there are over 350 municipal courts what are operating locally with in the state of Georgia. I learned that the purpose of the courts is to listen to criminal, and civil cases and as well as overseeing each case, and to make sure that it is within the conjunction with the Constitution of the State of Georgia. I also found through my research that State court laws are based on state penal codes, ordinances which are state local and laws enacted by state and local governments. Federal court laws are based off of the U.S. Constitution, and laws enacted by Congress or executive agencies Code of Federal Regulations. (Reference book Meyer and Grant, p 94, 2003)

The trial-level courts in the Georgia Court Judicial System have limited Jurisdiction. Those courts are the Magistrate Court (159 courts, small claim cases and ordinance violations), Probate Court (159 courts, estate case and DUI cases), Juvenile Court (48 circuits, Juvenile offenses), State Court (71 courts, traffic violations, arrest warrants), and Municipal Court (361 courts, handle traffic offenses and other ordinance violations). Within the trial-level courts is another court that has General Jurisdiction and that is the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court (49 Circuits), this court hears both criminal and civil cases. This court also oversees felony trials, death penalty, and corrects any rulings that were made by the limited jurisdiction courts. The Jury Service