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there is a hierarchy between civil courts and criminal courts. As far as the past 500 years the system has keep evolving, such as the law of precedent. In order to complete the essay successfully, this essay will find out what is law and how the law systems work in the country. It will attempt to understand the difference between public law and private law and the difference between civil and criminal law. It also will evaluate how the English court system work come up with the…

The Magistrates’ Court is the lowest court in England. It deals mainly with minor criminal such as vandalism and drink driving. All cases begin in the magistrates’ court, and more than 90% of them will be completed there. It also can deal with offences like burglary and drug offences. These are called either-way offences and they can either be heard in the Magistrates’ Court or they can be passed on to the crown court. The Crown Court deals with more serious criminal acts such as murder and…

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even be waived to the adult court (based on laws and regulations for that specific jurisdiction), there are three main types of waivers that can be used; these are: the judicial waiver, prosecutorial discretion, and statutorial exclusion. Judicial waiver is the most commonly used transfer mechanism, and it involves judicial prosecutors and/or judges making the decision based on the circumstances (offense criteria, age, etc.). Prosecutorial discretion occurs in those states that have determined…

phase. While in some states, this next phase may be a grand jury hearing, and in others it may be the trial. Holloway (2014) enlightens, if the…

Throughout the Fall 2016 semester, I visited several different courts uptown for my American Criminal Courts class. When I saw this assignment on the syllabus, I was very eager to complete it because I wanted expand my knowledge in the court system and how it works. I had previously observed in a courtroom for my Civics and Economics class in high school, but it was very basic. I went to the courthouse afterhours and completed a mock trial with other peers. Even though it was basic, I still had…

2012). The author focus on this research is to investigate whether the defendant’s ages and levels of psychosocial maturity would affect judge’s ratings of juveniles in a juvenile and criminal court (Cox, 2012). The method they use on this research they mail 48 judges from 25 states. The cases in which a state did not have more than 48 judges, all judges were recruited for participation (Cox, 2012). There was 342 participants 73.4% were men and 26.6% were women. 86% were white, 3.2% Hispanic,…

Courthouse Visit On Tuesday, November 8th I visited the Price County Courthouse in Phillips, WI were the honorable Douglas T. Fox presided. Judge Fox is a circuit court judge which is an elected positon and he is currently serving his sixth term. I was not aware that Judge Fox was an elected official until I did research on his background, but I feel that this is a good way for the people to pick a judge that will be fair and impartial and has similar views as the public. On the day that I…

Since Washington State Juvenile Disposition Guidelines have stated the age range a juvenile could be tried in juvenile court of jurisdiction, it would be easier for the judge to determine if the person should be sentenced in juvenile or adult court jurisdiction. The confusion of the exact age a person is fully mature and should be consider adult makes it hard for judges under blended sentence to determine the appropriate court of jurisdiction for the juvenile. Following a research in psychology…

Madden, the legal form for the court hearing would mention “State of ___ v. ____” (Ms. Madden 2017). That would be the name of the state in which the problem occurred whether it is Maryland, Georgia etc. If it is Virginia it would state “Commonwealth of Virginia v. Name of the criminal, abuser etc.” (Ms. Madden 2017). Beneath it gave a docket number followed by the time, file number and reference number. This is to help organize and track all materials produced for courts in America. It is…