Prosecutor

The Queens Supreme Court is the 11th District Court of New York. I interned in the Civil Court division, which handles various cases of a non-criminal nature. I interned under, Justice Martin Ritholtz, who handles cases of both civil and a commercial nature. Within the Queens Supreme Court, there are only three judges who handle commercial cases, thus many of the cases that Judge Ritholtz saw were of a commercial nature. Most tended to be non-serious car accidents. These cases traditionally…

“Trail Lawyers Cater to Jurors’ Demands for Visual Evidence” is an article written by Sylvia Hsieh about how visual evidence is presented in a courtroom for jurors and the challenges lawyers face using them. The author begins by listing some of the technology and entertainment readily available and attributes that to the expectation jurors have of being entertained. The lower cost of acquiring produced visual evidence has also sparked competition among creators of the medium and has made it…

Contemporary Psychologist believe that people have multiple identities and different people and situations bring out different sides of a person's identity. A person tends to behave differently with an interaction with a judge in court than with a friend at the mall The interaction with a Judge would be more courtial and a person vocabulary would be more sophisticated. They would address the Judge as “Your Honor” rather than Mr. or Mrs. Their attire would be different because the person needs to…

Elaine Cassel, who practices law in Virginia and the District of Washington provided two incidents of prosecutor misconduct in her article Prosecutor Misconduct in Two Recent High-Profile Cases: Why It Happens, and How We Can Better Prevent It. In the first case a defendant was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering his wife and sentenced to life in prison; conversely it was also found that the prosecutor included evidence that was admissible in court. In the second case a defendant was found…

prosecution of an offender, the prosecutor must carefully examine the offenses and clearly document the investigations with the highest levels of professionalism. Although different crimes have different penalties, it is the work of the prosecutor to ensure that they analyze the crime and identify relevant facts and charges of the given offense. The first thing that we should understand is that the work of the prosecutor is to seek justice and not merely convict. The prosecutors do this by…

once said, “The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America” (Neubauer, Fradella 2017 pg 155). I have always wanted to become a police officer, but if I could be a major actor in a courtroom it would be a prosecutor. It’d be a prosecutor because I love to argue. Prosecutors are lawyers who investigate, charge, and take to trial people whom they think have committed a crime (Portman). The reason I would want to become a prosecutor for that…

justice official”. (Davis) They have the power to charge suspects. They also have the power to dismiss cases. The prosecutor function is to be the minister of justice. The prosecutor must believe that the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt even before it goes to trial. They are supposed to be trained to balance fairness and decency. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Prosecutor misconduct occurs when in the course of their duties they act in ways that are unethical and…

Prosecutors play an influential role in a court and yet nobody even knows what a prosecutor is. For those who do know, their impression is bad, who could blame them even the word sounds unpleasing. Prosecutors play just as big a role as any criminal defense lawyer, maybe even bigger because while criminal defence lawyers defend, they can also defend those that have wronged and this is when a prosecutor comes in and keeps dangerous people away from society. It’s quite easy to misunderstand a…

you speak, prosecutors get to have that experience. A prosecutor is an attorney who is one of the most important law enforcers in the county ("Prosecutors office "). The responsibility of the prosecutor is not is not just to send someone to jail but to get justice ("Prosecution function "). All of this information is very interesting but the steps to becoming a prosecutor are very complicated. Such as having to go through four years of college and three years of law school, prosecutors have a…

described as a spectacle dominated by candidates attempting to paint a narrative about themselves or their opponent, then prosecutor elections are not an exception. Similar to general elections, prosecutor’s will change their behavior to improve their conviction rates through dismissing cases, taking high-profile cases or increasing trial convictions. In fact, a study about prosecutor elections and trial convictions concluded that “ when an incumbent runs for reelection, the data indicates that…