Bargain In The Film Plea Not Guilty

When Kaffee says his defendants’ plea not guilty, this throws off the prosecutor’s initial plea bargain he had agreed on with Kaffee. This again relates to class because we discussed how lawyers sometimes meet to agree on a plea bargain in casual settings before they meet in court. This also relates to how we learned the roles of a prosecutor in class for giving a plea bargain.
Later in the movie, the case is in a district court. This had a lot of components of what we learned in class including, judges, bailiffs, the court reporter, and witnesses. As we learned in class, the judge is given the highest honor in the room. In the movie he was given the hammer, placed in the highest point of the room, and even said he should be addressed as “judge” or “your honor”. The bailiff on many occasions addresses the courtroom and says, “All rise” just as we learned as well. On another occasion, Kaffee asks the courtroom reporter to read back Colonel Jessup’s statement, because they must write down everything said at trial. This was all taught when we learned about the courtroom workers.
There can be lay, and expert witnesses. In the movie, they used the doctor as the expert witness. They were not allowed to question the expert to much extent because the “expert” opinion is not speculation. There were also other lay witnesses who were used in the trial to help confirm the flights that had gone in and out of Guantanamo Bay.
This movie was a very good representation of what we learned from the structure of the American courts because it made visualizing the process of the court systems easy for me to understand more clearly through watching the movie. I also think this assignment made me think more in depth, and research a little about the process of trial, so that gave me a better understanding as