When the defendant appealed the case in an appellate court in after new evidence had been found after the conclusion of the trial, the appellate court remanded the case back to the trial court so that the trial court could consider the new evidence and retry the case accordingly.
trial court
Definition
A court of original jurisdiction where evidence and testimony are first introduced, received, and considered. Findings of fact and law are made in the trial court, and the findings of law may be appealed to a higher court that has the power of review.
A trial court of general jurisdiction may hear any civil or criminal case that is not already exclusively within the jurisdiction of another court. Examples include the United States district courts on the federal level and state-level trial courts such as the New York Supreme Courts and the California Superior Courts.
A trial court of limited jurisdiction may only hear specific kinds of cases based on subject matter, amount in controversy, statutory grant, or administrative matters.
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
The court that has original jurisdiction and holds the original trial where all the evidence is first received and considered. Compare: appellate court
Definition provided by Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary.
August 19, 2010, 5:26 pm
“Reviewing courts are properly resistant to second-guessing the trial judge’s estimation of a juror’s impartiality, for that judge’s appraisal is ordinarily influenced by a host of factors impossible to capture fully in the record—among them, the prospective juror’s inflection, sincerity, demeanor, candor, body language, and apprehension of duty. See Reynolds, 98 U.S., at 156-157. In contrast to the cold transcript received by the appellate court, the in-the-moment voir dire affords the trial court a more intimate and immediate basis for assessing a venire member’s fitness for jury service. We consider the adequacy of jury selection in Skilling’s case, therefore, attentive to the respect due to district-court determinations of juror impartiality and of the measures necessary to ensure that impartiality.” J. Ginsburg, Skilling v. United States, 130 S.Ct. 2896, 2918 (2010).
