Essay On Criminal Trial
At first, during the trial, I felt weird because no matter where I looked there was a person I and I didn’t want to stare too long or else they would think I was looking at them when in fact I was thinking about what the defense/prosecution were talking about and how I was to respond when there was an objection. As well, while Prosecutor M.Warren was argueing/badgering the witness, I was waiting for one of the defensive lawyers to object. They did object, but by the time they did the prosecutor was already in her seat and had finished. I had no other choice but to tell the lawyer, E.Moyer, “Too bad, you objected to late.” It was hilarious, but I felt bad. The second day of the trial I felt like I got into the trial more with being a judge
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I stayed that way throughout the whole trial until the end as I listened to the prosecution/defense’s closing statements. As they talked I kind of drew up my own explanation based on the evidence provided by both sides. M. Warren was talking about how she was broken and sick, which in a way contradicted her whole idea on the defendant being guilty because if the defendant is sick then there is something wrong with her that she can’t control. Based on the defense's statement the defendant was sick with battered women’s syndrome which influenced her thoughts. As I came up with my own decision on whether she was guilty or innocent, I thought about how battered women’s syndrome is like a depression caused by long term abuse and is a mental disorder. It causes people to do things they won’t normally do, an example of something someone wouldn’t do if the were in their right mind is killing the person responsible for the abuse rather than finding a better, less violent way of getting the person out of his or her life. The defendant wasn’t in her right mind when it happened. In this way of thinking I would have pronounced the defendant innocent and demand that she go to counseling three times a week and that if she didn’t follow those parameters she would be locked in a mental
I stayed that way throughout the whole trial until the end as I listened to the prosecution/defense’s closing statements. As they talked I kind of drew up my own explanation based on the evidence provided by both sides. M. Warren was talking about how she was broken and sick, which in a way contradicted her whole idea on the defendant being guilty because if the defendant is sick then there is something wrong with her that she can’t control. Based on the defense's statement the defendant was sick with battered women’s syndrome which influenced her thoughts. As I came up with my own decision on whether she was guilty or innocent, I thought about how battered women’s syndrome is like a depression caused by long term abuse and is a mental disorder. It causes people to do things they won’t normally do, an example of something someone wouldn’t do if the were in their right mind is killing the person responsible for the abuse rather than finding a better, less violent way of getting the person out of his or her life. The defendant wasn’t in her right mind when it happened. In this way of thinking I would have pronounced the defendant innocent and demand that she go to counseling three times a week and that if she didn’t follow those parameters she would be locked in a mental