District Attorney Interview

I have written formal bail reports from a handwritten report, filled out forms for illegal immigrants, open files into their program (PACTS) and follow up with defendant’s third party custodian to check if they have any problems or changes to report to the court. I have also learned that I am afraid of public speaking. I believe this internship will help me overcome it before it is over. To be in a Law Enforcement position, we have to have confidence and good oral skills to communicate with others. I definitely recommend this internship for Criminal Justice students who are interested to learn about the federal system and would like to get good connection for the future. I have expressed my interest to continue working with them after the internship is over. I believe students should know more about the Pretrial Services, and what it

As the internship program and the training intended, I have learned much related to my major, Criminal Justice. This internship helped me to acknowledge that qualified, knowledgeable professionals are needed by our complex society to define, administer, and put our rules and standards into force. Like jobs in any other field, to work in the field of law requires expertise. Trained experts are the most desirable to be hired by organizations, tasked to manage justice, to direct their operations. By writing articles for the legal website, I learned to assess law enforcement situations orderly. I learned to make use of the basic legal and management theories to analyze the situations. I got the opportunity to show my understanding of the key process in the U.S. criminal justice system. I also learned to combine approaches from management, law, and the behavioral science to apply them to the situations I was studying.

The CSI Effect is said to have poisoned the minds of jurors and their expectations of presenting evidence by the forensic science T.V. shows like CSI (Crime Scene Investigators) influence their perceptions of jurors being able to provide forensic evidence. “Using the fact that Hollywood could determine the outcome of case by letting the guilty go free, but in a society where the criminal justice system has convicted many people who was innocent.” (McRobert’s, Mills, & Possley, 2005, P. 1). Juror’s have demanded the use of forensic science for forensic evidence in criminal trials which means that prosecutors will have to provide more of the proof of juror’s to get a conviction. CSI Effect believe that crimes show such as CSI have little to no affect on juror’s actions to make a

My internship is at the Richland County Public Defender’s Office and I work directly with two juvenile defense attorneys. My office is at the Richland County Judicial Center. This position is very new and I am the second person to have this internship at USC, so defining my position is very complex. I do not have an on-site social work supervisor to turn to when I have questions, so, I have to figure out a lot of things on my own. Being that I work directly with the attorneys, a lot of things I see on the daily are on the legal side and not the social worker side per se. However, the attorneys involve me in the entire process when working with each client to provide a social work perspective to better help the clients and increase the quality of their services.

The District Attorney’s Office is comprised of 540 employees, these employees include attorneys, investigators, forensic analysts, paralegals, clerical workers and volunteers. There are relatively 190 prosecutors in the District Attorney’s Office and are assigned to diverse specialized teams. The District Attorney’s Office prosecutes over 40,000 cases yearly, these cases include criminal, fraud, elder abuse, burglary, robbery, sexual assault, domestic violence, gang violence and murder. “The Domestic Violence Unit of the Family Violence Division is overseen by Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. The Domestic Violence Unit of the Family Violence Division prosecutes crimes with regard to domestic violence.” (Domestic Violence Unit of the Family Violence

Have you ever watched a crime T.V. show, and thought all of the technology and tactics were top of the line, brand new, and high tech? Well, unfortunately, that isn’t the case in real life. As people go on thinking that this is true, criminal cases are turned upside down all of the time due to a lack of common sense, and knowledge of Hollywood’s exaggeration of television. The C.S.I effect has had a tremendous impact on the Casey Anthony trial, this is due to a lack of forensic evidence, and a biased

Rosemarie Seider-Paquin was kind enough to come into class and share what she does for a living. I am lucky enough to have previously seen and spoken to her in a previous class. Although I have no desire to work in a prosecutor's office it is still important to know how the system works and functions. She spoke about the different judges that the county has including Alan Jackson. She has been in the gloucester county prosecutor's office for over 14 years and spent a majority of those years in the domestic violence unit. The county has 30 different detectives and many different units that help the justice system. Her specific job is to comfort the victims and ensure their protection. She informs the victim of new information about the trail and she teaches them how the system works so they don’t get overwhelmed.

During my internship with the Bibb County Sheriff Office, I was assigned to different divisions of the agency, which elevated my educational knowledge and skills to a higher level. To provide insight into my experience, I shadowed deputy sheriffs from the Warrants and NCIC (National Crime Information Center), Patrol,

Citing from the CSI effect, it is perceptibly factual that TV shows/dramas that adhere to forensic investigation as a way of solving crimes are significantly affecting the criminal law in the contemporary CJS. Prosecutor and jurors are

Crime Scene Investigations are fascinating to the public and have been portrayed on television for many years. These television shows have influenced how the public perceives the procedures of investigating crime scenes. Forensic science and investigating a crime scene is a very complex and unique career. Television has exaggerated and wrongly influenced the perception of forensic science, crime scene investigation, and procedures in criminalistics. The effect that these crime scene television shows have on the public is called the CSI Effect (Shelton, 2008). The CSI effect can lead to jurors wrongly acquitting an individual because they believe the job wasn’t thorough enough. There are more than 100 million viewers who watch television shows about scientific evidence in criminal cases (Shelton, 2008). The general public assumes what they

District attorney decides whether they have sufficient evidence to go to trial. She reads the law enforcement’s conclusion from their investigation. She assigns her own investigator to do further investigation regarding to a particular case if she needs more and much sufficient evidence. She may decides against prosecution if the evidence collected is too weak. Districts attorney works to prevent crime when she is not trying a case. She presents her own evidence to a grand jury. She also reaches out to the law enforcement and politician because their work affect her

3.) It has been estimated that up to 40 percent of the science shown on CSI does not exist (Klein, 2004). CSI makes it seem as though forensic tests are invariably accurate and never spoiled by pollution, mistakes in laboratories, or prejudiced explanations; problems that impair actual forensic science (Risinger et al., 2002) Furthermore, Professor Houck states that CSI “incorrectly depicts forensic science as this juggernaut of infallibility” (Leonard, 2005). In essence, what he is saying in his complaint is that crime shows are misleading jurors and "tainting jurors" with impractical standards for forensic science. By witnessing court cases constructed on forensic evidence on T.V. , jurors may assume that court cases are constructed the

As we look into a fantasy of what is being played out on television, in reality there are far worse crime that calls for more specialized people. Maybe the crime scene was set up to look like a suicide but after a forensics report there is DNA of two other individuals on the scene. Maybe that little girl did not choke on a skittle but was instead molested and died from being choked. Just maybe that man didn’t jump off that building but was pushed, or that husband didn’t die after natural causes due to poison being found in his system and records indicating she hired a private investigator on him before his passing. This is

During the course of my internship I was given various responsibilities, I had to research several Illinois State statues, write out client information on an excel sheets to compile data for the attorneys, take down client’s personal information, go to court with my brother attorney Tyler Crosby and write letters to various clients. In addition to the administrative work, I also had the opportunity to sit in on human resource meetings and marketing meetings for the law firm.

The “CSI Effect” refers to the belief that juror’s expectations about forensic evidence at trial are changing due to the popularity of forensic science television shows such as CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( Kim, Barak, & Shelton, 2009; Hayes-Smith & Levett, 2011) . CSI is one of the most popular shows on network television, consistently ranking and spawning several spin-off shows. These shows depict crime scene investigators using highly technical procedures to recover microscopic evidence that ultimately reveals the details of the