Criminal Trial Arraignments

First and foremost, the whole experience is one that I could never forget. I realized that a criminal trail and a pretrial deferred greatly from all the arraignments that I have ever been to. An arraignment in the United States is the formal reading or presentation of charges against an individual as well as the stage where an individual enters a plea of guilty or not guilty. While a pretrial as stated earlier, is a proceeding that includes the judge, prosecutors and the defense attorney who are to access the facts or evidence of a case and decide whether or not they are going to be admissible during the real trial. While the arraignment and pretrial can be considered as the base of the whole trail process, the criminal trial itself is the foundation or house. A criminal trial in the United states includes the judge, prosecutors, defense attorneys and most importantly a …show more content…
From the presentation of facts, to how the defense attorneys and prosecutors formally conducted themselves, as well as the surroundings of the court were all fascinating and encouraging to me. Although I was upset that the video of the guards beating the inmate were not shown nor discussed, I felt that both representatives did a magnificent job in protecting their clients.
Finally, any criminal justice system or process is not easy however, this pretrial made me confirm that although it may be hard along the road, I still strongly have the dream of becoming a public defendant. Being a part of such a system that changes life and society in general, is a life goal that I will see to it that I accomplish. Lastly, there are many loops to the Justice system in the United States however, I hope that through the little that I have described, you can see that the trail process is just as important as the criminal trial or any trail in