Court House Observation

Introduction: For this paper I decided to stay close and attended court at the Mesa County Court House, this court house is a District and County Court house. The judge proceeding over this case was Judge Mcnaulty. The case I thought I was going to be observing was between Steve and Samantha Cejka and was in court room number seven at eight am in the morning. However what I did not realized about the court was that there were several cases to be heard by the judge and they were at the same time. This case in particular had to do with obtaining a permanent restraining order, however because one of the parties was not present the judge actually postponed the hearing to another time, he also did this in order for the temporary restraining orders to be delivered to both parties, due to the fact the defendant said …show more content…
When I first pulled up to the court house I was a little bit apprehensive seeing some interesting individuals outside of the court house. My apprehension grew as I approached security and saw a few people taking off their shoes and putting their things into gray bins; as I put my stuff into the bins I noticed one female officer looking at me with almost a sad puppy dog look, almost like this lady thought I was in some type of trouble and she felt bad for me which instantly made me feel like a criminal. To further my security experience I set the metal detector off and I had a different officer tell me in a pretty condescending and snarky tone that it was probably my shoes that made it go off and I needed to go to the back of the line and try again. After finally making it through security and officially feeling like a criminal I went upstairs to court room seven and when I entered I was very surprised how nice the court room was and was surprised to see the court room was even sound