Introduction to Criminal Justice 
Assignment 3:
Stages of a Criminal Trial
Davara Ponds
CRJ:100/Introduction to Criminal Justice
Professor Matthew Burleyson
Strayer University
February 8, 2012
Introduction
One particular case on March Two Thousand seven a trail that lasted seven teen days in South Florida that brought the jurors to tears when a forty eighty years old man call John Evander Couey that kidnapped Jessica Lunsford in Two Thousand Five, sexual assault and murder her.
Jessica Lunsford was a nine year old that stayed next door to the subject that murder her when the detectives testified that Couey had tied the girl up with speaker wire and wrapped her in a garbage bag before burying her near her home still a live holding on to her stuffed dolphin.
It took four hours for them jurors to come back with a guilty verdicts on Couey, the subject was a convicted sex offender already before the murder of the victim he had admitted before the trial he had killed Lunsford. His confession was thrown out by the judge because the police had made an error by not having a lawyer present during his confession although the psychologist testified that Couey showed signs of mental illness and retardation. The jury that convicted him convened again the trial sentencing phase recommended that he be put to death a recommended by Judge Richard Howard for his part.
The First Appearance
After the arrest most defendants don’t come in contact with an officer of the court until their first appearance of a magistrate or judge of the court. When they are brought before a judge they are given a copy of their charges, be advised of their rights, they get the opportunity to get a lawyer or their own, then here come the bail which they will try to make. Any time u takes a person into custody he must be offer a court appearance before a magistrate without delay. That amendment was put in effect in nineteen forty three by the U.S. Supreme Court case of McNabb v. U.S. Pretrial Release
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Stages of a Criminal Trial
Davara Ponds
CRJ:100/Introduction to Criminal Justice
Professor Matthew Burleyson
Strayer University
February 8, 2012
Introduction
One particular case on March Two Thousand seven a trail that lasted seven teen days in South Florida that brought the jurors to tears when a forty eighty years old man call John Evander Couey that kidnapped Jessica Lunsford in Two Thousand Five, sexual assault and murder her.
Jessica Lunsford was a nine year old that stayed next door to the subject that murder her when the detectives testified that Couey had tied the girl up with speaker wire and wrapped her in a garbage bag before burying her near her home still a live holding on to her stuffed dolphin.
It took four hours for them jurors to come back with a guilty verdicts on Couey, the subject was a convicted sex offender already before the murder of the victim he had admitted before the trial he had killed Lunsford. His confession was thrown out by the judge because the police had made an error by not having a lawyer present during his confession although the psychologist testified that Couey showed signs of mental illness and retardation. The jury that convicted him convened again the trial sentencing phase recommended that he be put to death a recommended by Judge Richard Howard for his part.
The First Appearance
After the arrest most defendants don’t come in contact with an officer of the court until their first appearance of a magistrate or judge of the court. When they are brought before a judge they are given a copy of their charges, be advised of their rights, they get the opportunity to get a lawyer or their own, then here come the bail which they will try to make. Any time u takes a person into custody he must be offer a court appearance before a magistrate without delay. That amendment was put in effect in nineteen forty three by the U.S. Supreme Court case of McNabb v. U.S. Pretrial Release
A