Crown District Courts

The Crown District Courts were the third highest courts of the Star Kingdom and Star Empire of Manticore.
All serious felony criminal cases that fall under Crown law, as opposed to County or Planetary law, are heard in the Crown District Courts in addition to all cases appealed from the lower courts. They also accepted or declined, on motion from a party, jurisdiction on cases where there was a conflict of interest between which local law should be applied to a case.
A county, depending on size, usually had four district courts. The senior judge in a district court was called the Chief Judge and their headquarters was located in the capital of the county in which they served.
Crown District Courts were organized on a county level, but judges were selected by the Monarch with the advice of the Prime Minister rather than the County Magister. ()
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