Acorn To Oak Community Services Reflection

First week of the month November 2015 at my agency named Acorn to Oak Community Services, I observed many things outside of the agency. Since it is my block week, I was given the opportunity to go with the other students at the agency to shadow the organization lawyer defending his client at the court. I was unable to attend both days because of my professional mandatory class, but I did attended one out of the two. Before I explain what I achieved, I will like to explain a little bit of what I witnessed there; I could not witness the real case but I was enlightened about what transpired prior to the client arrest. The person in question got charged for break and entry with some other chargers. I was told how the judge want the client to do 24 months in prison, but the lawyer pleaded for 18 months. Eventually, the judge sentenced him to 18 months in prison. That was what I was told, since I did not witness the original case. That been said, I learned that, when individual committed a crime at young age stage, those things do not go on their records. However, those records can still be put on their record if they ever commit …show more content…
Once the lawyer was done with the paper work, he left and asked us to leave too if we want, but we decided to stay back shadowing other courtrooms. I acquired a lot of knowledge about justice system, how each rooms handle different cases. For example, Room 206 is only for adjourning cases, while Room 405 is for bailing courtroom. During this week, I encountered minor disagreement with the other students deciding which rooms of those court we should attend; we got it resolved ourselves without supervisor since our supervisor is not around to decide for us. How we resolved it, we sat down for 15 minutes contemplating and deciding on what we will achieve from room A and B. We then came to an accord on the same outcome; this is how we resolved the