The original role for prisons was just to hold criminals and no regard was given for an inmate’s well-being. These prisons were often overcrowded and dirty (2011). The welfare of the inmates did not seem to matter. As Roth states in the text “Contrary to existing penal protocol, Rush envisioned a prison system in which convicts were housed in a large building equipped with single cells to segregate the more dangerous and disruptive prisoners. All others were lodged in apartments” (2011, p. 89).
Courtroom WORKCourtroom Work Group Paper Bridgette Anderson CJA/204 Robert Quesada September 01, 2014 In the criminal justice system a courtroom work group is compose of the judge, prosecuting attorneys, defense attorneys, public offenders, and others that may work for the court work group such as clerk of court and court reporter. The judge has complete control over the courtroom, the workgroup, responsible for keeping the order and decision-making of finding the accused innocent or guilty of charges that are brought against them. The courtroom work group interacts on a daily basis in many ways. For one, the judge responsibilites are to oversee what goes on within the courtroom, and ensure the rights are not being violated, well as
There was a Vandalia City Council meeting held on September 3rd, 2013. This meeting was held in the Municipal Building, located on Bohanon Drive, in order to discuss the important events occurring in the city of Vandalia. Before the meeting started, everyone had to sign in on a sheet and take a council agenda. The pen was broken and there was not any extras. Luckily, everyone had their own pencils.
On the 20th of May, I attended Federal court called FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA-SYDNEY REGISTRY, there are so many people came here to listen to the civil case. There is the daily calendar posted in the court departments in the lobby of the courthouse, which said every case times and places, and the defendant and plaintiff could find their names on the list in order to find the room number of courtroom, date and time of the case. Under the federal court, the individual, corporation had the right to bring about any civil suits in federal court claiming any loss. Therefore, I chose a civil case between a carpenter and a lumberyard; the carpenter claimed the loss which the lumberyard made because carpenter thought the lumberyard breached the rule
I ended up sitting next to the defendant’s family, which made me a little uncomfortable. This was especially the case because there were no other spectators in the room. The prosecutor had a large cart filled with physical evidence in plastic and paper bags. It took up a lot of the limited space. 3) Describe your impressions of the presiding judge - his/her appearance, demeanor, job performance etc.
After Heck Tate briefly explained the situation, my dad finally spoke. Atticus cross-examines the witness and later when Bob stood up on the court, Atticus also questions Bob Ewell. Atticus told Bob to write his name and the jury found out that he was left-handed. The court was filled with noisy sounds until Bob wrote his name, but when everybody figured out Bob was left-handed, the court got silent. I don’t get this, what about being left-handed and is the trial moving smoothly?
When he did so there were five employees on duty and two of the employees seen what had just transpired. The first employee seen the customer shoplifts and did not act. The second employee that seen the shoplifter shoplift responded to the situation and took all of the proper percussions. In the law Federal Sentencing Guidelines are rules that set out a uniform Sentencing policy for convicted Federal defendants in the United States Federal Court system. (Albonetti, 1997).
During recess, in the absence of the jury, Judge Kennedy discussed with the two attorneys the purpose of following series of questions, role of evidence, and the inclusion of the police officer as a witness. The sophistication, and experience of the judge was imminent as he took meticulous care to ensure all information being presented to the jury would depict a fair and relevant picture. While all cases at the District Court involved federal offenses, and dealt with severe issues of material significance, I thought the District Court proceedings were extremely slow paced. If many of the procedural questions asked by the judge were answered prior to the trial, each judge at the District Court would be able to go through three or four cases as opposed to one or two. An extremely low turnover of cases at the District Court can be a detriment to the legal system as cases are processed too long after the crime was
They are shown to a bench where they are allocated to chair the main charges court with two other magistrates, Great efforts are made to list magistrates from all walks of life to provide a ‘mixed’ bench in every sense to hear the cases., Defendants who are found guilty in magistrates’ courts can appeal against the verdict or sentence to a more senior court. The prosecution has a more limited right to appeal, too, but only if the magistrates have made an error of law. In practice, less than 3% of decisions in the magistrates’ courts are ever appealed. An example of a case handled by magistrates is of two 19-year-old men, charged with assaulting the landlord of the pub where they had been drinking the previous night. They were told that they are not ready to enter a plea, as evidence has not been disclosed.
It is the jury to decide whether or not the defendant is guilty. The jurors are selected by a computer which produces a list of possible jurors from the registrar. Section 321 of Schedule 33 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 substitutes new provisions into the Juries Act 1974 under which every person is qualified to serve as a juror in the Crown Court, the High Court and the County Courts and is liable to attend for jury service if summoned only if: 1. They are registered as a parliamentary or local government elector and not less than 18 years of age nor more than 70 years old. 2.