What is the role of a judge is a question that is often asked. Maybe its best to state what a judge doesn't do? Ensuring that the system operates fairly and impartially, actors in the criminal justice process such as the judge is put in the position to be the symbol of justice. Judges are the criminal justice systems impartial decision makers. Granite there is a mass amount of important roles in the court room, the formal powers of judges extend throughout the criminal court process. The actual influence that a judge has on a court room is a lot of times underestimated. Judges hold a powerful domination over the other factors that operate in the system daily. From arrest to the final deposition that sentences a defendant judges are affecting
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The public believes that judges are the principle decision makers in courts. But in all actuality they are constrained from the prosecutors, defense attorneys and probation officers. Judges usually have to piggy back off of what other members of the court room have to present. From judges accepting bail recommendations offered from the prosecutor, plea agreements presented and negotiated by defense lawyers, and sentences and probation sentences recommended by the probation officer. But by all means are we to say that judges are ruled are controlled by other members of the court room. According to (Neubauer& Fradella, 2014) The amount of influence that judges exert on the other members of the court room varies. Some judges are known to be very strict. The strict judge will not allow a ton of continuances, attorneys and or lawyers arriving late in the court room and lawyers having a lack of evidence. On the flip side some judges are more relaxed and easy going. Mastering the law and following the procedure of law are ways that will change the characters of judges. Determining the sentences that are given out, how many sentences and or cases are pending and the turnaround rate for judge’s helps determine the differential between their
The public believes that judges are the principle decision makers in courts. But in all actuality they are constrained from the prosecutors, defense attorneys and probation officers. Judges usually have to piggy back off of what other members of the court room have to present. From judges accepting bail recommendations offered from the prosecutor, plea agreements presented and negotiated by defense lawyers, and sentences and probation sentences recommended by the probation officer. But by all means are we to say that judges are ruled are controlled by other members of the court room. According to (Neubauer& Fradella, 2014) The amount of influence that judges exert on the other members of the court room varies. Some judges are known to be very strict. The strict judge will not allow a ton of continuances, attorneys and or lawyers arriving late in the court room and lawyers having a lack of evidence. On the flip side some judges are more relaxed and easy going. Mastering the law and following the procedure of law are ways that will change the characters of judges. Determining the sentences that are given out, how many sentences and or cases are pending and the turnaround rate for judge’s helps determine the differential between their