Book of Judges

other on Wednesday, March 11th of 2015. The courtrooms that I visited are both parts of the Fayette County Court, located close to my home. On Monday the 9th the courtroom I visited was a Superior Court room with Judge Fletcher Sams and on Wednesday the 11th I visited a State Court with Judge Jason Thompson. Observing Superior Court was very interesting. I observed a child molestation case, which plead to a lesser offense. While the case we were supposed to observe in a trial pled out, I…

that the judges were either a man or woman, sitting front and center of the courtroom as they were clothed with an official black robe. I was greeted at the courthouse by security and walked through a metal detector, making sure to take everything out of my pockets. I questioned security on where I can go to watch the trials. I proceeded to the second and third floors where I was allowed to be in the room for a case. I recorded in my notebook what I heard, what I saw,…

of a judge is to interpret laws. Judicial independence means that, the other organs of the government must not restrain the functioning and should not interfere with its decision of the judiciary in such a way that is unable to do justice. Judges must be able to perform their duties without fear or favor. Judges play a crucial role in Canadian democracy and judiciary protects the rights of an individual. The…

they usually have nothing positive in response. What people don’t understand is that we the people make up our system. Within the last 200 years the method we choose to select judges has been a huge debate across the United States. Judges have many responsibilities that they uphold to help our justice system flow. The judges partake on the system is critical. They’re often times involved from the very beginning during some arrest like approving arrest and search warrants. They are sometimes…

The John T. Scopes “Monkey Trial” Introduction Beads of sweat drip down your neck. You see the hundreds upon hundreds people around you in the courtroom. The judge is about to give the verdict. The Scopes “Monkey Trial” was one of the most famous court affairs in history. John T. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolutionary studies when he took a substitute position and taught the theory to students. Events that Contributed to the Scopes Trial Events during the “Roaring Twenties” started…

do judges apply the law? This question has stimulated many theories about how far legal rules guide a judge when it comes to their foremost job: decision making. Does a judge simply just apply rules to the facts of the case? Of course, “the importance of rules as a basic building block of law can hardly be doubted,” but it is argued that judicial discretion can also be a powerful tool when it comes to making judgements within the law. There are differing schools of thought on how far a judge…

Prior to the criminal trial, be that as it may, essential advances are taken in the pretrial procedure: the arraignment is the main hearing that a litigant will have before a judge. “A meeting is held after every single introductory arguing have been documented enables the judge to deal with the case. Judges utilize it to set up a time period for finishing up all pre-trial exercises and may set a speculative trial date at this time.” (American Bar Association, 2017). Movements are pleadings…

puppy, it is a story that tries and make you see that looks are deceiving and that we should not judge a book by its cover so to speak. Marie the mother of two whose names are Abbie and Josh was trying to connect with her children and treat them in a way that her mother and father never did for her. Marie wants to be close to her kids and make sure…

theory, namely judges are ‘not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one’. Lord Esher’s judgment in Willis v Baddeley contended that judges ‘frequently have to apply existing law to circumstances as to which it has not previously been authoritatively laid down that such law is applicable.’ They believe that judges’ role is just to discover law and apply it to different circumstances. However, this theory then was widely condemned by lawyers, judges, and…

comments by the judge, or jury irregularity.’ as stated in the AQA Law book. The Court of appeal consists of three senior judges, the superior of the three is referred to as the lady/lord chief justice. They have the power to quash convictions, in addition to the Criminal Appeal Act (1968) that makes it permissible for judges to call a retrial on similar charges. If an appeal does occur, the case will progress onto the supreme court where there is more often than not a collection of seven judges…