of the building was not reflective of the amount of cases per day it accommodates. After speaking with one of the guards I was referred to the criminal court room rather than the family court‚ due to what he called a more interesting day.? . The courtroom itself I thought was way too small. There were only two and a half rows for people to sit and watch‚ forcing many people to have to wait outside. That I thought was not a well thought out design. There is tons of extra hallway space that they could
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criminal offenders. In drug court‚ the traditional functions of the U.S. justice system are profoundly altered. The judge is the leader of a treatment team. The judge makes all final decisions and holds a range of discretion unprecedented in the courtroom‚ including the type of treatment mandated and how to address relapse. In 1989‚ the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Miami-Dade County in Florida was the first in the nation to implement Drug Court‚ a diversion and treatment program for drug offenders
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world” is difficult to be seen as strong and independent in this day and age. The judge‚ and or plaintiff (being males) can easily take advantage of her because she’s a minority a women and has little to no money with also a male lawyer. She was in a courtroom full of men and she was the only woman at the court hearing and she could have felt the racial pressure coming down on her she wasn’t this big lady she was about 5’2 and 130 pounds and looked like she’s had a pretty though life. These factors need
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Mockingbird affected the Civil Rights Movement? The novel helped people better understand why racial discrimination was wrong. The Civil Rights movement was beginning to take shape in the 1950s‚ and its principles were finding a voice in American courtrooms and the law. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee sets her story in the South of the 1930s‚ although she wrote the novel in the 1950’s‚ at the time of the Civil Rights Movement. To Kill a Mockingbird deals with racism and prejudice‚ and this teaches
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never see the inside of a courtroom‚ and if they do see a courtroom it is not in the context that one would think. The defendant is not sitting in a courtroom full of spectators watching as attorneys argue the guilt or innocence of the defendant to twelve jurors who will eventually decide their fate. This perception of a courtroom has been molded into the minds of Americans through television. The real picture of how the majority of cases are tried is not in a courtroom‚ but a small room with the
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Reel Views Based on a true story‚ about a group of enslaved Africans aboard the slaveship La Amistad who overtake the ship and attempt to return to their homeland. When the ship is seized‚ the captives are brought to the United States where a courtroom battle ensues that captures the attention of the entire nation while confronting the very foundation of the American justice system. Charles Taylor´s view of this film is agreeable in some areas but questionable in others.
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society. How does the role and responsibility of a judge differ in a real-life courtroom as opposed to the mystique portrayed in the movies or on television? Judges in the court system do not have the luxury as portrayed on television‚ many judges that I have come into contact with would not allow disrespect or out burse from a defendant or the spectators in his/her courtroom. There is strict courtroom etiquette; inappropriate behavior would be lead to contempt of court. Judges on television
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Drug Court Treatment 1 DRUG COURT TREATMENT AND SUCCESS Enhancing Drug Court Success and the Logic of Coerced Treatment Amanda M. Welker Idaho State University Drug Court Treatment 2 DRUG COURT TREAMENT AND SUCCESS This paper is about two articles on Drug Court. The first one is‚ “Drug Courts and the Logic of Coerced Treatment.” And the second one is‚ “Enhancing Drug Court Success.” Both of these article look at the different types of treatment that Drug Court
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Court TV ’s request to televise Moussaoui ’s trial. . Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 4‚ 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=sb1011394319936007480.djm Cohn‚ M. & Dow‚ D. (1998). Cameras in the courtroom. Jefferson‚ N.C.: McFarland & Company‚ Inc. Cummings‚ M. C.‚ JR.‚ & Wise‚ D. (2001). Democracy under pressure (9th ed.). New York: Harcourt College Publishers. Estes vs. Texas (1965). 381 U.S. 532.
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shows Adela’s opinions of the man who pulled the punkah. The importance of the way the Anglo-Indians entered the courtroom and the man who pulled the punkah will be discussed. The British were from the beginning‚ set apart from the rest of the court. There were seats reserved specifically for Adela’s company‚ giving them an air of superiority over the rest of the people in the courtroom. It was also pointed out that “it was important that they should look dignified”‚ brining the friction between the
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