Judge Herscovitz Case Analysis

Judge Herscovitz was in the process of finishing up arraignments. His last one was a person who violated his probation. The defense counsel explained that he couldn’t check in with his probation officer lately because of life circumstances. The defendants girlfriend is pregnant and the mother has cancer. Judge Herscovitz asked him to not violate it again because then, he would get 45 days in county jail for sure. Judge Ewell, was in the middle of a side bar when I walked in. The first hearing I observed was a defendant who stated he’s completed all but 4 domestic violence courses. His excuse was that he lost his job and has kids. As a result, he got 6 days in county jail. The majority of the remaining hearings were DUI’s. Most of the DUI cases had to the same pleads and the same consequences. I think there were more than 5 DUI hearings and some no shows. There was a DUI case were I got to hear the attorney and his client talking about it once it was done. The attorney was telling his client that it was a good thing he plead no contest because it fell under misdemeanor, even though, there …show more content…
The trail was still in jury selection specifically, in the stage of listening to hardships. Most of the hardships started of with finances. For vacation excuses and the upcoming Jewish holidays, Judge Dohi would ask them to reschedule. There was approximately 20 people explaining hardships. Judge Dohi would ask some people to call in and check with certain people depending on the situation. Friday jurors are always known as the worst. I think since the case was expected to be two weeks long people just had less availability for it. All the remaining jurors came in. The jurors were asked to respond to basic questions on the board. Surprisingly there was a good amount. I feel like Judge Dohi was the right amount of lenient during the hardships. There were a few jurors who seemed like they were lying but who