Court Cases-Personal Narrative

The first case viewed was a defendant accused of 6 counts of obtaining property by false pretenses. The case went very quick and I didn’t really understand what was happening. I was distracted by the young lady from earlier who re-appeared and sat down right in front of me. She turned around and asked what we were going to school for. I mentioned Social work and she just looked at me and then turned back around. I was not able to really get an understanding from the first case due to being distracted however, I did hear that the defendant could be facing prison time. Before the start of the second case, I didn’t not pay much attention to the young lady sitting in front of me. All of a sudden, the female courtroom deputy approached the area where we were sitting and stated to the female that the judge was watching her and she needed to stay awake. She then told the young lady to go ahead and move to the front of the …show more content…
Judge McFadyen was examining the evidence to decide whether, the defendant should be held legally responsible for the damages alleged by the plaintiff. The bench trial began with multiple parties consisting of four African American females; two plaintiffs suing two defendants. The body language portrayed by one of the defendants was quite noticeable. She would often shake her head and display anger toward the plaintiff. I witnessed several times Judge McFadyen rolling his eyes during the case. Upon cross examination a cell phone conversation provided by the plaintiff’s attorney was placed into evidence. The assistant district attorney played the recording for Judge McFadyen. Both parties had presented their arguments and the judge’s verdict was not guilty to the 1st defendant and guilty to the 2nd defendant. The 2nd defendant was ordered to 90 days of house arrest with an electronic monitoring, and no return to the Diamond club where the incident took