FORTY YEARS AGO last Sunday, five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington DC in a botched operation that would spark a chain of events that two years later would see Richard Nixon resign as the 37th president of the United States.
District Courts and Circuit Courts (or Federal courts of appeals) are part of the federal court system. District courts are lower and have the responsibility for holding trials, while circuit courts are appellate courts that do not hold trials but only hear appeals for cases decided by the lower court.
All states, including Ohio, have a two-court system: state courts and United States (also known as federal) courts. Ohio's courts are divided into three levels: trial courts, appellate courts and the state supreme court. The federal court system is similar to the Ohio court system.