Courtroom

I visited the Riverside Country Superior court in Murrieta, California. Where I sat in on two parts of legal environments in a course. Before finding out which court room I would go in to observe a case. I sat in the master calendar room. In this room each case is pushed into a different court room. The master calendar room seemed to be controlled by the lawyers in the room. Of course each lawyer would check in with the policeman in the front so he knew who was in the room, but it was a time…

Film Reaction Paper: The Newsroom In 2012, creator Aaron Sorkin’s television series The Newsroom aired on HBO cable network. Actor Jeff Daniels portrays Will McAvoy, News Night’s anchor and managing editor, with impeccable style and realism. The newscast McAvoy and his staff produces is notorious for being soft news (Dominick 2013) but that is about to change. The pilot episode begins at a forum at Northwestern University. McAvoy consistently avoids questions of political party allegiance and…

focuses on the law in society; and therefore, observation of the law in use is likewise the best way to understand the culture and context within which law is used. So, it is important to experience the culture of the courtroom firsthand to fully understand the dynamics of the courtroom, as the media is never an accurate representation. Even though many people believe…

sitting beside Steve Bogira in Courtroom 302 for the year spent observing the activities associated with Judge Locallo’s docket, Marx and Durkheim would not be too happy with Locallo. Marx would be upset on how the system is working because it looks like it is created to keep the minority population behind the bars. Marx would think that our current system is created to separate the wealthy from the poor or the white from the black. For example, in the book, Courtroom 302, “All-white juries…

There are many roles involved in the courtroom process and among them include the prosecutor, the judge, and the defense counsel. Each of these roles serves a unique and important aspect within the courtroom. The first role within the courtroom is the prosecutor, as known as the attorney, whose official duty is to conduct criminal proceedings on behalf of the state or the people against those accused of having committed offenses. In other words, they are responsible for presenting the state's…

interested in the workings of a trial. I was anxious to hear what the case I was sitting in on was all about, and do come up with theories and verdicts of my own. The spatial arrangement in the courthouse in very specific, as is the arrangement in the courtroom. Right as I walked in the doors there was a security guard, an X-ray machine, and a metal detector. I put my purse in though the X-ray machine and walked through the metal detector. At…

Courtroom 302 provides the reader with a real time view of criminal processing. Steve Bogira begins this work from the earliest moment that a person is entered into the criminal justice system, the arrest. Bogira then takes the reader on a step by step reading tour of criminal processing, following alleged offenders as they progress through the system. Bogira introduces the reader to every character that he follows, sharing with them a background of the character, perhaps in an attempt to…

inference It is defined as a process of deducing properties of an underlying distribution by analysis of data. Read the courtroom trial example provided on the wiki site. Then answer the following questions: What is the null hypothesis in a courtroom trial? A null hypothesis in a courtroom trial is the one in which the defendant is not guilty. What is the alternative hypothesis in a courtroom trial? An alternative hypothesis refers when the defendant is guilty. At the beginning of a court…

Mediation vs. Litigation What are the characteristics and constraints of courtroom language? To what extent can mediation provide an alternative to these constraints? Use some examples to illustrate your points. Introduction Litigation is defined as the process of contesting a legal action in court (Collins Dictionaries 2011). The process of taking legal action involves the usage of language. Ordinary everyday language is adapted in many ways to form a sublanguage of legal language (Tiersma…

Hollywood’s influence has often created a false perception of what occurs in state and federal courtrooms in the United States. However, such a viewpoint is not always negative, for average citizens and some lawyers, there may be a guilty pleasure in watching orchestrated trials. Orchestrated trials like real trials are as much about look and feel as they are about facts. It is not the facts alone, but how they are presented to the jurors that determine the outcome of a court case. To prevail,…