Assignment 2.5 Criminal Court Cases

The family has been determined indigent for services. Samkisha has received public defender services for her criminal matters and Mrs. Beale has received Medicaid since she was 16 years of age. Mrs. Beale disclosed she is court ordered to receive child support in the amount of $202 per month from Mr. Robinson for Samkisha, but stated he seldom make payments of such. She also reported she receives unemployment in the amount of $204 per week and Social Security Income (SSI) for Samkisha in the amount of $670 per month.

A: Standing to sue is the requirement that plaintiffs who sue must have a serious and vetted interest in a case, meaning the plaintiff has sustained or is in danger of sustaining a direct and substantial injury from the actions of the other(which can be the government)

Today (February 4th, 2016), I was placed in Courtroom 4C of the courthouse and instructed to sit-in and observe every case brought forward to the judge today. I have to say, some of the cases I heard about today were not your real average day cases. One thing one of my supervisors; Vinny, told me to look out for was the the college/high school students who got in trouble for underage possession because they stick-out like a sore thumb in the courthouse. He said you can tell which ones they are based on the way they are dressed and how nervous they look when they are sitting and waiting for their case to be heard. Vin was not wrong, once the room was open for people to come in, I saw a group of 5-6 college-age students walk in very well dressed and most of them came in with one or two parents next to them. Throughout the day, some of the cases brought forward to the judge

Walking into a court and actually seeing a case up close in personal instead of watching it through a TV screen is something that is very interesting. You get to see the raw emotion of everyone in real life, you get to sense the feelings that everyone is having in the room, and you actually get to see whether the offender feels guilty for what he or she did by watching the way they act in the courtroom. Sitting on a bench and actually observing what the emotions of every person in the room, not just the offender and the victim, but also the people sitting on the benches that are just there to observe. It’s hard not to get caught up with what his happening in the case and

The first ground was that he believed the senior judges had wrongly interpreted the meaning of the word “inability” found in section 12 (1) of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971. The appellant thought the meaning of “inability” was to be restricted to the narrow interpretation allowing the reasons behind unfitness for duty to be limited to physical or mental infirmity as oppose to the wider interpretation of including any form of incapability to perform the role of a judge. He believed that parliament never intended for “inability” to be widely interpreted as section 12 (1) of the 1971 act was intended to be read in relation to the historic legislative provisions for the removal of sheriffs from office in particular the Heritable Jurisdictions

The analysis conducted by Herbert M. Kritzer, Paul Brace, Melinda Gann Hall, and Brent T. Boyea titled “The Business of State Supreme Courts, Revisited” provides the bleak illustration of multiple court composition changes from the 1890s into the 20th century. In short, real estate property and debt continued to decline while in the meantime, criminal court cases was a matter that continued to rise. Despite the growth in criminal court cases, the patterns of change in other areas of supreme courts either began to reverse or collectively stop. Neither tort cases nor family cases continued to significantly increase. In fact, torts seemed to stabilize and family cases managed to decline. The most surprising turn is the sharp increase in “other

Crime and courtroom proceedings have become a fascination for the Western society. Reality and fiction though have begun to distort the expectations of what is expected in the courtroom. These distortions deriving from television shows such as CSI, 48 Hours Mystery, American Justice, Law & Order and even, on occasion, Dateline NBC. The mass media play an important role in the construction of criminality and the criminal justice system. The public’s perception of victims, criminals, the gathering/processing of evidence, deviants, and law enforcement officials is largely determined by their portrayal in the mass media. “Research indicates that the majority of public knowledge about crime and justice is derived from the media (Roberts and Doob,

“Texas mother of three is arrested for 'helping cover up double murder by cleaning up bloody gun safe after teacher husband fatally shot two neighbors after Halloween party'”

Law and Order: SVU, takes place in the Special Victims Unit of the NYPD with Lieutenant Olivia Benson and her Detectives Rollins, Fin, and Carisi. In season 17 episode 19, Sheltered Outcasts, Detective Carisi is undercover as a parolee at a homeless shelter with the division of sex offenders in order to solve some rape cases involving the local homeless population. In this episode, a young woman is walking back to her apartment late at night and is raped at knifepoint while her attacker whispered, “Do what I say and you won’t get hurt”. The detectives arrived at the scene and closed off the area from the public while taking to any people that would be potential witnesses. These witnesses giving eye-witness accounts from what they saw and heard

Your question is complicated to have a solution. That’s why courts’ standards for child custody have change throughout history. I think it’s fundamental for a child to be raised by both parents because each parent is unique and they transmit different qualities to their child. It is possible for a single parent to raise a child but it is going to be more complicated. By having both parents it just makes the process to raise a child easier.

The Supreme Court of Canada fails to take a consistent and principled approach to criminal procedure cases. Assessing the constitutionality of legislation is an important function of the Supreme Court of Canada. Consequently, consistent and principled approaches are expected and required in the interest of fairness and upholding judicial legitimacy. The judiciary’s role in protecting individual rights from state interference is a core judicial function, particularly in criminal procedure cases. “The duty to protect individual rights lies at the core of the judiciary’s role, a role which takes on increased significance in the criminal law where the vast resources of the state and very often the weight of public opinion are stacked against the

Cases are heard by either having 2 or 3 magistrates or a district judge. There isn’t a jury in a magistrates’ court.

Whether it is a criminal trial or a complex civil litigation case, lawyers typically do not leave the chance of a high-profile case or a case with high-stakes up to chance. Rather, lawyers rely on jury consultants who help them to research and select jurors by providing attorneys with insight on common juror behavior (Kane, 2017). Some consultants focus on jury selection, others may spend time working with the witnesses, while others focus on developing an effective trial strategy (Stapp, 2017). Developing an effective trial strategy may encompass considering things that shape juror’s perceptions during voir dire and opening statements, or how the presentation of the evidence and closing argument may lead to a verdict that is favorable for

The pre-recorded evidence in chief is a new special measure which enables the victim to have their evidence pre-recorded. S.28 Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999; Pre-recording This special measure was piloted at three crown courts(Leeds, Kingston and Liverpool) in September 2017. This special measure according to Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss will help victims of rape ‘ This will not reduce the right to a fair trial, but will make sure victims of these abhorrent crimes are protected and able provide their best possible evidence.’ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/greater-protection-for-rape-victims-and-children-at-risk-of-grooming. However, it can be argued that the defendant in the case will not have the same opportunity

1. The trial from my perspective was that I was the only male jury member in the trial and that was unique because the jury was full of girls with their opinions and I had mine and I thought it was going to a biased trial but it turned out well as we were working fine with each other and were not fighting based on opinions and that influenced my view on the trial because it wasn't as biased as I thought.