Trial court

are holding a “criminal’s court” or “Kangaroo Court.” In this trial, the audience can see no matter what the circumstances are procedures and trials are important. Despite that these people are criminals; they are still holding a trial to convict the murderer and to punish him for the crimes that he committed. However, they did not employ the full extent of the law (procedures). Criminal law is a system of law that has to do with punishing those who commit crimes. The court role is to uphold…

1. The defendant, Primeaux "argued that the statements were not offered to prove the truth of the statements and thus were not hearsay". The trial court's ruling was stated by the trial court to only address the State's hearsay challenge. In regards to the court disagreeing with Primeaux they explained "if statements made by Davis caused another person to take specific actions, those statements might be admissible, to show 'the motivation of why someone acted as they did'". Hence, the jury would…

Forensic Psychologists are employed to assist the court in determining the guilt or innocence of an accused. They are trained to apply principles of psychology to the justice systems. They are used in criminal cases (but can be used in other instances as well) to assess an accused’s mental state and criminal capacity at the time of the alleged criminal event. Have an understanding of the legal approach to important issues of guilt, criminal capacity, intent, negligence and the sentencing of an…

In this following paper I will discuss my court visits on September 30th and October 19th at the Lancaster Court House. The first hearing I saw was an estate hearing in courtroom six on the third floor with Judge Jay J Hoberg. The hearing was only an about an hour long but to me it was very informative. As I mentioned earlier it was an estate hearing for a petition to have will moved to New Jersey, there was a jurisdiction error. There was no defendant, the party in contradiction of a claim that…

attended the Brisbane District Court for approximately 3 hours. This essay outlines on the observations that where made that day and critically reviews the components of crime control and the due process models, which these findings represent. I will then go on to draw upon my observations guided by academic literature, which will provide an overview of both models. This essay however will dispute that the governing model for what I observed on the 5th of August at the courts was both the due…

Prior to the criminal trial, be that as it may, essential advances are taken in the pretrial procedure: the arraignment is the main hearing that a litigant will have before a judge. “A meeting is held after every single introductory arguing have been documented enables the judge to deal with the case. Judges utilize it to set up a time period for finishing up all pre-trial exercises and may set a speculative trial date at this time.” (American Bar Association, 2017). Movements are pleadings…

investigation of him and from an incriminating testimony from Jay Wilds. By popular demand and a reevaluation of evidence and court proceedings, Adnan Syed should be allowed another trial. Christina Gutierrez was Adnan’s attorney and was incompetent in defending him in court. Gutierrez was a Baltimore lawyer that was known for her aggressiveness and great legal tactics. In the first trial, she continually tries to pin the murder on Jay, and does the same in…

Through life’s terrible trials and experiences, everyone will eventually be forced to mature and grow up. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, we follow the story of Jem and Scout, two kids living in the South during a period of severe racism. Through their actions, we meet Mrs. Dubose, a mean old woman trying to beat her morphine addiction, and Tom Robinson, an innocent black man accused of rape because of a white woman’s attraction to him. Even though the characters of Mrs. Dubose and…

Judges’ Opinions about Adjudicative Competence” (Cox, 2012). The author focus on this research is to investigate whether the defendant’s ages and levels of psychosocial maturity would affect judge’s ratings of juveniles in a juvenile and criminal court (Cox, 2012). The method they use on this research they mail 48 judges from 25 states. The cases in which a state did not have more than 48 judges, all judges were recruited for participation (Cox, 2012). There was 342 participants 73.4% were men…

Because of this the jurors had to discuss about the trial and finally decide if the boy is guilty or not. The 8th juror (who voted not-guilty) talked to the other jurors telling them that they should decide in a few minutes. This is a very serious situation so he wants them to take at least an hour. Then all of them sat down…