Court Issues JoyAnn Czudek CJA/394 June 24‚ 2013 Kevin Dzioba Court Issues The criminal justice system has changed tremendously over the decades and so has society. It is important that the court system make changes to keep up with the times. There are parts of the court system that need to be identified to have these changes occur. One of these areas is the way courts are managed including their problems and resolutions. A new trend that has emerged is victims’ rights. Victims can now
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Court Observation October 30‚ 2012 On September 27th I went to Branch 6 to watch the criminal trial of the defendant Lord Wilson. It was making out to be a weeklong trial and I made it on the second to last day. All I knew was that it was a case involving drugs and had been in the making for a while. When I arrived at the public safety building to listen to the criminal trial taking place I learned firsthand that things never seem to stay on schedule. A recess was taking place when I walked
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Hanna Houle Television shows such as‚ Law and Order and Aly Mcbeal have forced me to perceive court as a grand building with a large staircase and marble floors. A novice to the court system‚ I was unpleasantly surprised to find out just what court was like. The lack of free parking and immense amount of eight dollar parking in downtown Atlanta gave me an initial feeling that it was going to be a day of hassle and inconvenience. After realizing I was not on an episode of “Special Victims Unit
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Reaction Paper for Court Experience I visited the District Court arraignment section (D11) in Central Islip. This was my first time in a courtroom‚ so I did not know what to expect. When I first sat down the judge was not present‚ and I was not paying special attention until I noticed the whole court room standing in his presence and so I hurriedly buckled my self off the bench so as not to be kicked out. I knew that judges receive a higher level of respect but the seriousness of it was not
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Summary: Johal‚ Johal‚ and Deo are the defendants in this case who are being charge with kidnapping with the intent to transport a person against his/her will. The defendants later extorted the victim and the victim’s family. The issue before the court today is whether the charge of kidnapping subsumes the charge of extortion or if the charge of extortion is an independent act from that of kidnapping. Were the proceedings cooperative or adversarial? The cooperative nature of the trial was characterized
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CHAPTER 1 THE COURT STRUCTURE - The present court structure has been in effect since June 1994 following the Constitution (Amendment) Act 1994. - The judicial powers are exercised by the Subordinate Courts and the superior courts organised in a hierarchy where the Subordinate Courts are at the lower level and the superior courts at the higher level. THE SUBORDINATE COURTS (The Subordinate Courts Act 1948) THE PENGHULU’S COURT - The Penghulu’s Court is presided over by a Penghulu who has
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Court Issues Paul Thomson CJA/394 March 4 2013 Jeffrey Hooker Court Issues As we all know that the world of the criminal is always changing and the Law enforcement community needs to change with it. The biggest one would be the courts. There are many things that face the courts today. There are many issues facing the courts and the court administrator’s one problem is the use of plea bargaining in our court system. More than 90 percent of felony cases in the United States in any given year
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confidential. For a juvenile to have there file sealed they have to request it from the court. Most get probation with circumstances like community service‚ counseling or drug treatment. We have to look at juveniles differently than we do adults because of their developmental progress. Every juvenile officer who goes through training becomes knowledgeable about the juvenile developmental process. Research of court procedures in the state of Nevada for juveniles offenders who have not yet reached 18
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Appellate Courts v. Lower Courts State Court Systems have a unique two tier structure‚ which is broken down into specialized courts. Each branch of these structures have their own unique set up and hear different types of cases. Some have different guidelines‚ boundaries‚ and laws they must abide by‚ but ultimately the highest court in a state is the Supreme Court and the lower being a mayor or magistrate court. Federal Court have their own system with a similar tier structure to it‚ but is made
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An Appellate court and lower courts are two completely different things. However‚ they do have their similarities. They both are court trails and ways to go about proving a person right or wrong. In a Appellate court‚ normally the victim has done something very wrong and they normally do not get the chance to even begin to share their side of the story of what they think happened vs. what really may have happened. Court judges believe that the outcome of the trial should have been different‚ but
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