Court Narrative Report

This dialogue repeated itself several times over the next 30 minutes with most of the defendants having been moved to courtroom 406. At this point, the crown requested that a Judge call a 10 minute recess so that she could locate the paperwork for one of the contested release cases, and the Judge obliged.

As the Honorable Glenn Thompson entered the courtroom, the bailiff spoke aloud saying 'all rise' and everyone stood up until the Judge ordered them to be seated. The defendants names were called with each defendant or their respective attorney answer their roll call.

On October 21, 2014 I went to a court to listen in on some proceedings. It was pretty difficult to find one that was open to the public in this court. Many courtrooms were private or some hearings were irrelevant with what I was looking for. The bailiffs were really nice they helped guide us to the big courtroom that allowed proceedings to be heard by the public. There were some trials that we couldn’t attend because it was a more serious crime or there were juveniles involved and since they are under age we couldn’t be there for it. The courtroom I was in had a professional atmosphere to it but kind of unorganized because there were a bunch of papers all over the place and some of the inmates didn’t show up so the judge would put them to the side. Majority of the inmates being held for drugs, driving under the influence, or physical violence.

As we arrived to the courthouse, there were cameras and many people from town to either support Officer Paul or me. Everyone went into the courtroom and sat down so the judge could get started.

Courtroom Observation Review of the 2008 2L Moot Court Tournament at the Liberty University School of Law

Walking into the Kent County Courthouse, a brand new environment for me on November 20th 2015 at 1pm .As soon as I enter and get through security I am now on the hunt. That is, in the hunt for a criminal case to observe. Along the way I run into men in suits and trench coats carrying briefcases whom I assume are lawyers. After I coincidently reunite with peers from my class we search for a criminal case together and finally find one in courtroom 8C.

The Superior Court session I observed was an alcohol impairment case. The defendant in this case, had been found guilty in District Court, but had filed an appeal to the District Court’s decision.

Moreover, because we arrived earlier than the original time for the Riker’s island pretrial, we witnessed a brief trail which to me wasn’t informative because very little could be heard from what the judge, prosecutor and a different defense attorney were discussing. Since I could retain very little information from that trial, I took a quick glance at the interior structure of the court room. To accurately present the surroundings of the court room without interrupting the ongoing trail, I imagined myself standing at the door we entered through to the room. With my back facing the door, I pictured the room as having seats arranged much like how churches have long chairs that could occupy a number of individuals, a long aisle that separated the seating into sections of right and left with the male and female prosecutors of the cases chairs and computers in front of the seats on my right and the defense attorneys with their clients on the left. The seating sections for observers had ropes in front of them, separating them from where the prosecutors, lawyers, defendants, judge, security and the juror were seated. Both the right and left seats had the first roll of seats cleared by the security with have no sitting on them, a phenomenon that I still

The United States Courts are played by different selected people that operate the entire courts. Courts are in place to handle disputes between parties, that can be civil, criminal, family, and/or traffic. In order for the courts to be able to operate, they must employee staff to help the function of the cases. In fact, the players of the courts are like the players of the doctor’s office. This analysis will discuss the results of an interview conducted with a prosecutor, defense attorney, and a judge, it will go over the results, and the procedural law in the time span as an inmate.

​In Court Room A fathers, mothers, grandparents and guardians were all present. All rise was announced as the judge entered the room. Afterwards it was observed that the judge decided to go through the list of names based on cases for the day and the times they were to appear at 9am. This particular court room dealt with fathers who were late on child support payments. Some for the first time and some more than once. The judge, attorneys and other members of the court were well organized. All uniformed personnel including police officers, investigators, attorneys and lawyers sat on the front two

Before taking a break for lunch, Judge Robinson took care of hearing that was quite interesting. It was regarding a defendant who was facing charges of vandalism, assault with a deadly weapon, firing a weapon in a public city limit and attempted murder. The defendant made aware to the Judge that he wanted to represent himself. He believed the public defender he had was not going to represent him correctly. The judge was

Until one of the officers, explain to me that the prosecutor cannot shake hands to the defendants because it's looks like money laundering, and the prosecutor is a germaphobe. Criminal court ran smoothly. Most of the people accept the charges and pay their fine. Then. I notice something so shocking, I notice a man who works at one of the food courts on campus. He was charged with aggravated DWI and was sentenced to a hardship license and a victim impact class. It’s always awkward to see someone you know at court, and sometimes I try to avoid that person. There was also one more bizarre moment in court. The woman who had a butterfly bookbag was part of a civil case. I think his landlord is suing her and she is also counter suing him. They both went to the backroom with the two mediators to see if they could work out the issue without having trial. Fifteen minutes later, they all walked out and a man put up a sign from the sitting area. The officer told the man to put the sign down or he will be put out. I thought that was really strange, nobody did not understand what was written on the sign, most of us was just shocked about what just

We stayed around for a while waiting on litigants to come until 9:30 am, no one had shown up, so the attorney told us we could go down to the courts and sit in on hearing from previvous cases. If any litigants came to the DASH center and needed

The first stage of the trial began ten minutes into our seating inside. The judge began by arranging the jury into their proper seats and informing them of how they will carry out their jury duty and the process of it. The jury was compromised of twelve people, and each took their turn to swear their oath to be truthful and fair in their judgement. The usher then proceeded to declare the full case to the attendees as follows:

Who was present in the courtroom? Identify the positions of all the people present (i.e. judge, prosecutor, bailiff, defendant, jury, etc) and give a brief description of their role and what you observed them do in the courtroom during your visit.