The District Attorney 's Office

The same kind of good evil scenario between the defense attorney and prosecutor’s office is also evident in the television show Law & Order. Although that show does not often portray one side as only good or only bad, there have been times when it has created defense attorney characters who have taken advantage of the law to force the system to completely exonerate their clients, which makes them appear to be evil people who are “cheating” justice. Reality and Fiction: the True View 3 The reality of attorneys on opposing sides of a case is that they are seldom easily identified as good or evil persons and just because they are working for the defense or the prosecution does not indicate the type of person they are (Steinberg). Both are expected to act legally and both have pressures on them that affect their work and who they are. Simply the side they represent does not alone affect the kind of person they are. As to how they try their cases, attorney ethical codes require attorneys to “zealously” pursue their case for the benefit of their client to the extent the law allows (ABA). This means that if a defense attorney sees an opportunity for his client to be set free then he or she must use it because that is their job. It is the job of the prosecutor to assure the defense does not have those opportunities. Again, this does not reflect on the quality of their character. The same thing can also

The Los Angeles County Sheriff 's Department is tasked with providing health care services to all incarcerated prisoners within a jail system which at present exceeds 18,500 inmates. Correctional Treatment Center (CTC) provides care and treatment for inmates requiring inpatient medical and or psychiatric care in this 196-bed rated medical unit located in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles. The inmate population is in poor health, largely due to the lifestyle choices of the inmates which often include substance abuse, violence, and living on the streets of Los Angeles. They require the same basic medical care that all residents of Los Angeles County require, including routine illness to advanced medical issues such as tuberculosis (TB), AIDS/HIV+, heart disease, diabetes, dialysis, paraplegics, and acute mental health problems. Additionally, problems associated with aging are becoming common as the jail population increasingly includes older inmates. In the wake of chronic overcrowding in the county lockups, the Sheriff 's Department has been struggling to provide adequate care for thousands of inmates, many of whom have never been treated, with illnesses ranging from tuberculosis to AIDS to schizophrenia. Reported rates of tuberculosis in jails and prisons are more than six times higher than those for the general population. Jails and prisons concentrate individuals at high risk for TB or noncompliance with therapy, including those who are

The Crown prosecutor is the head legal representative of the prosecution who are appointed by the crown. They are briefed by the Director of Public Prosecutions for some cases and deal with both state and federal matters.

District Attorney’s Office -Administrative Assistant. Handled all travel arrangement for attorneys and clerical staff: transportation, hotel, food, etc. Entered information in on a data base for all new employees also removed information when employees were dismissed. Submitted work time sheets for employees, distribute payroll checks to employees.

* Although the police, judges, defense attorneys, and probation officers remain involved in specific duties, the prosecutor proves challenged in phases of the court process. Prosecutors challenge judicial decisions at times (Byrd, 2001). The office of the prosecutor proves part of the executive branch of the government. In all phases of the court process, given broad discretion, his/her job is to advocate the guilt of defendant vigorously. The prosecutors represent the people. Prosecutor screen the case. They determine if a crime has been committed. They research the crime to examine if a suspect has proved properly identified and if the evidence is sufficient to support a guilty verdict (Schmalleger, 2011).

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is composed of over eighteen thousand employees. The hiring process is a long and arduous process, consumed with numerous steps. The most pivotal aspect of the hiring process is the background investigation on applicants. Background investigations are a crucial step to deciding if an applicant will be qualified for employment. Unfortunately, even qualified applicants are overlooked, and under qualified applicants are offered employment to meet discriminating hiring quotas. These hiring quotas are a result of a policy known as Affirmative Action.

In the American Criminal Justice System, there are four key attributes in the role of the prosecutor. There are discretion, resource dependence, sequential tasks, and filtering. The prosecutors are lawyers that are accountable for presenting criminal cases in trial. The United States Attorneys are pointed by state or government, and represent the federal government in courts. They prosecute all adults who commit felonies and juveniles who commit delinquent crimes. Conjointly, the prosecutors have further responsibilities, such as legal adviser of the country commissioners, the Board of Elections, and written admonition of the prosecutors.

The attorney “represents the state in civil and criminal cases and advises county officials on legal questions” (Brown, 2014, p. 114). The district attorney, someone who prosecutes cases, gives advisory opinions, and represents the county in civil cases, appoints the county attorney (Brown, 2014, p. 114). The district attorney carries a bit more weight than the county attorney. The district attorney is important because that person may represent more than one county. The decisions of the county and district attorneys impact many other county

One thing I notice is a lot of the misconduct is by the arresting officers or detectives that are investigating the crime. The ways an office can have misconduct that could lead to false convictions, include suggestions when conducting interviews, coercing false confessions, lying to jurors about observations, failing to turn over evidence. Common forms of misconduct by a prosecutor can include, withhold evidence from defense, mishandling, mistreating or destroying evidence, allowing witnesses that they know are not truthful to testify, Pressing Witnesses of the defense to not testify, relying on fraudulent forensic experts.

All people given a traffic citation are to appear in court on a specific date after their traffic citations. Those people who plead not guilty are set for trial at a future date, and the prosecutor and arresting officer are required to appear at trial. 75 percent of people who plead not guilty fail to appear at trial, but the city is still responsible for paying overtime expenses to those officers who are not on duty but must appear at trial. The court administrator is called upon to devise a system to limit the city's overtime expenses. The court administrator devises a system where the court has access to police officer schedules, and where all officers are normally scheduled at least one day a month during court trial hours, and sets trials involving those officers during that time period.

On June 12, 1994 two bodies that had been found brutally stabbed in the Brentwood area. When police arrived to the scene and discovered the bodies. The bodies were identified as Nicole Brown Simpson, OJ ex wife and Ronald Goldman. At the time the LAPD had no suspects and no motives. OJ was contacted the next morning and agreed he would catch the next flight back to Los Angeles from Chicago. When he returned home there was a full investigation, with police tape around his front gate. Officers asked OJ to come with them to the Parker Center were they could ask him a series of questions. The officers failed to get any knowledge regarding the murder. Soon the LAPD felt like they had obtained enough evidence on the murders and obtained a warrant on OJ. Simpson 's attorney, Robert Shapiro worked a deal with the police department and agreed OJ would turn himself in on 10 am on June 17. Simpson fail to show up at the agreed time and location. Officers were sent both to Simpson 's and Shapiro 's home and there was no answer. OJ was at Robert Kardashian 's home with his defense team, officers contacted Shapiro. This is when Shapiro discovered OJ had gone missing with his long time teammate and friend Allen Cowlings (AC) in a White Ford Bronco. The news reported on Simpson gone missing an a motorist called in, saying they had seen the White Bronco. Officers had found OJ on the run, the chase ended peacefully when OJ returned to his home and surrendered. The trial was set on January 24,

These crimes have been deemed particularly dangerous to society because they compromise the health, well being, privacy and protection of the people of any given jurisdiction. When these crimes are committed or a person or group is accused of such acts, legal representation is the next logical step to preserve the institution of justice, protect innocent parties, and prevent the innocent among the accused from prosecution. This is why it is important to find the right lawyer. Criminal defense in the form of an experienced attorney is critical to aligning evidence, witnesses, and countering the prosecutions arguments for the sake of their client's defense, case dismissal, acquittal, lessened sentencing or rehabilitation.

I understand the extent, or rather the limited extent, that my help goes towards a prosecution. This past summer I was positive that I wanted to be a District Attorney in Los Angeles County, after I attend and finish law school. So this past summer I thought it would be wise to clerk at the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office. I had the experience of seeing a wide variety of cases, as the Deputy District Attorney I shadowed was in the Central Trial Unit. This meant that any case we were handed did not fall under the categories of sex crimes, hardcore

2. Prosecutors are assigned their cases from the DA’s office after they review the police reports. However, they should not pursue a case if the DA’s office missed the fact that there is no probable cause that backs up the case. If the

The learned Attorney at Law Mr. Ronald Mason wrote a crucial article that speaks to the cultural acceptance of deviant behaviours with the Jamaican society, which affects us socially, economically and politically.