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The Vermont Supreme Court is the state supreme court, based in the state capital of Montpelier.Because Vermont has no intermediate appellate courts, it is the sole state appellate court, mainly hearing appeals on questions of law from lower courts, although there are a few instances in which the Court has original jurisdiction.
The Vermont Supreme Court meets in a granite Beaux Arts-style building in Montpelier, just east of the Vermont State House and immediately west of The Pavilion Office Building. The building site was the original site of the first Vermont State Building, a three-story wooden colonial Georgian structure, built in 1808 by Sylvanus Baldwin.
Courts of Vermont include: State courts of Vermont. Vermont Supreme Court [1] Vermont Superior Court [2] Civil Division [3] Criminal Division [4] Environmental Division [5] Family Division [6] Probate Division [7] Vermont Judicial Bureau [8] Federal courts located in Vermont. United States District Court for the District of Vermont [9]
The Vermont prison system is administered by Vermont Department of Corrections. [16] There are about 2,200 inmates as of May 2007. [17] There are nine prisons in Vermont: An unusual feature of Vermont Courts is the use of side judges, elected laymen who sit with the judge in certain cases and also serve as county administrators.
The United States District Court for the District of Vermont (in case citations, D. Vt.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the federal district of Vermont. The court has locations in Brattleboro, Burlington, and Rutland. The court was created by a March 2, 1791 amendment (1 Stat. 197) to the Judiciary Act of 1789 and assigned ...
Removed in 1786 by reduction of the court to three judges. Chief Judge from 1789 to 1790, in 1796, and from 1813 to 1814. Luke Knowlton: 1786: 1786: Removed by reduction of the court to three judges. Stephen R. Bradley: 1788: 1788: Noah Smith: 1789 1798: 1790 1800: Samuel Knight: 1789: 1793: Chief Judge from 1791 to 1793. Elijah Paine: 1791: ...
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Adding lay judges to the courts was a means of ensuring that pro-British or pro-New York judges could not control the courts. [16] [17] Though reorganization of the judiciary in other states eliminated the side judge position, It has continued in Vermont.