{"id":80,"date":"2016-11-15T20:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-texasgovernment\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=80"},"modified":"2017-03-24T17:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:12:57","slug":"court-organization","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/chapter\/court-organization\/","title":{"raw":"Court Organization","rendered":"Court Organization"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-highlight\">\r\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\r\nBy the end of this section, you will be able to:\r\n<ul class=\"im_orderedlist\">\r\n \t<li>Discuss the structure of the Texas Court System<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<section id=\"fs-idp225728592\"><section id=\"fs-idp225728592\">\r\n<h1>Structure of the Texas Court System<\/h1>\r\nThe structure of the Texas court system is set up as a <strong>bifurcated<\/strong> system, meaning there are two highest courts of appeals for criminal and civil cases. The table below depicts the structure of the Texas court system with some additional jurisdiction, and court information. Note that <strong>Juvenile Courts<\/strong> preside in the District Courts- In Texas a juvenile is defined as young as 10 years old, and a juvenile can be convicted as an adult as young as 14 years old. [footnote]http:\/\/www.txcourts.gov\/media\/1436909\/court-structure-chart-jan-2017.pdf[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<\/section><section><\/section><section>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_172\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"687\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-172\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/690\/2017\/01\/19182047\/TXCourtStructure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"922\" \/> Structure of the Texas Court System[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<\/section><\/section>","rendered":"<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-highlight\">\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\n<p>By the end of this section, you will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"im_orderedlist\">\n<li>Discuss the structure of the Texas Court System<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"fs-idp225728592\">\n<section id=\"fs-idp225728592\">\n<h1>Structure of the Texas Court System<\/h1>\n<p>The structure of the Texas court system is set up as a <strong>bifurcated<\/strong> system, meaning there are two highest courts of appeals for criminal and civil cases. The table below depicts the structure of the Texas court system with some additional jurisdiction, and court information. Note that <strong>Juvenile Courts<\/strong> preside in the District Courts- In Texas a juvenile is defined as young as 10 years old, and a juvenile can be convicted as an adult as young as 14 years old. <a class=\"footnote\" title=\"http:\/\/www.txcourts.gov\/media\/1436909\/court-structure-chart-jan-2017.pdf\" id=\"return-footnote-80-1\" href=\"#footnote-80-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section>\n<div id=\"attachment_172\" style=\"width: 697px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/690\/2017\/01\/19182047\/TXCourtStructure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"922\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Structure of the Texas Court System<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-80-1\">http:\/\/www.txcourts.gov\/media\/1436909\/court-structure-chart-jan-2017.pdf <a href=\"#return-footnote-80-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":5721,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-80","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":41,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/80\/revisions\/267"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/41"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/80\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-texasgov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}