Cja Courtsystems
Courtroom Participation Chart
LTB
CJA/224
January 22, 2013
University of Phoenix Material
Courtroom Participant Chart
Complete the following chart.
| |What are the individual’s responsibilities in the |Why is it important for these responsibilities to be |
| |courtroom process? |fulfilled adequately? (Consider the effect of |
| | |overzealousness as compared with the effect of |
| | |underperformance.) |
| |A prosecutor is an attorney who has been elected or|The prosecution plays a very important role in the |
|Prosecutor |appointed chief of a prosecution agency, |criminal justice system. They are very busy, starting |
| |and whose official duty is to conduct criminal |before they even know if they are taking a case. The |
| |proceedings on behalf of the people against |prosecution is very much involved in the case with |
| |persons accused of committing criminal offenses is |investigating and gathering up everything they need to |
| |also called a district attorney, DA, state’s |present to the court. Even setting the appropriate |
| |Attorney, county attorney, and U.S. Attorney, and |punishment. Also bargaining plea agreements. If they |
| |any attorney that is to assist the chief prosecutor.|choose not to do their job a criminal could get away with|
| |In other words, the prosecutor is the one who |whatever the crime is. Basically the prosecution is |
| |charges criminal suspects in
LTB
CJA/224
January 22, 2013
University of Phoenix Material
Courtroom Participant Chart
Complete the following chart.
| |What are the individual’s responsibilities in the |Why is it important for these responsibilities to be |
| |courtroom process? |fulfilled adequately? (Consider the effect of |
| | |overzealousness as compared with the effect of |
| | |underperformance.) |
| |A prosecutor is an attorney who has been elected or|The prosecution plays a very important role in the |
|Prosecutor |appointed chief of a prosecution agency, |criminal justice system. They are very busy, starting |
| |and whose official duty is to conduct criminal |before they even know if they are taking a case. The |
| |proceedings on behalf of the people against |prosecution is very much involved in the case with |
| |persons accused of committing criminal offenses is |investigating and gathering up everything they need to |
| |also called a district attorney, DA, state’s |present to the court. Even setting the appropriate |
| |Attorney, county attorney, and U.S. Attorney, and |punishment. Also bargaining plea agreements. If they |
| |any attorney that is to assist the chief prosecutor.|choose not to do their job a criminal could get away with|
| |In other words, the prosecutor is the one who |whatever the crime is. Basically the prosecution is |
| |charges criminal suspects in