not enjoy was having a specific time slotted that we had to attend court during. With having such a busy schedule, with class and court observation all day from Monday to Wednesday, and then placement Thursday and Friday, it makes it difficult to have a job or do anything outside of this program. In order to fix this, and allow more flexibility for court observation, I would propose that we condense the semester and have placement the last two weeks of semester. This would mean that the classes could
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v. Boota Date attended: September 18, 2014 Judge: Madam Justice Warren Lawyers: Magal Huberman Jury: None Courtroom: 16 Issue: * The issue in this case was determination of child custody between a newly divorced couple. The judge needed to decide what was the best child custody arrangement based on the best interest of the child. Initial Observations: * The courtroom was one of the smaller ones and not many people attended. My assumption is that this is common for family matter
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Dispute resolution strategies Name Institution Abstract The paper is about dispute resolution strategies. It identifies three strategies and discusses them in details. Specifically, the paper entails an elaborate discussion on mediation, negotiation and compromise as conflict resolution strategies. Mediation and negotiation are alternative dispute resolution ADR strategies while compromise is an incorporation of litigation and can also be part of ADR. The three strategies
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CRM-260 Mrs. Patterson 1/5/13 Courtroom observation The purpose of this paper is to show what I observed throughout the three hours that I spent in the Green County judicial courtroom number V. This was the first time that I had ever been in any courthouse and I felt like I was entering an airport terminal when I had to go through security in order to enter the building. When I first arrived the judge was not in the courtroom and we had to wait around twenty minutes for him to enter, when
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Courtroom Observation and Report I attended a session in Courtroom 265 on September 20, 2012. The 28-year-old Defendant was being held in the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Center on 3 separate charges, and this trial was his sentencing hearing. While the Prosecutor and the Defendant’s lawyer waited in front of the Judge, the Defendant appeared on the television screen. His lawyer said that he was pleading guilty to mischief, possession of a weapon, and violating his probation. The Judge told
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one another, creating an entirely different field of forensic psychology. I will be sharing my observations and experience of my time observing a real-life court case trial before my own eyes and how this can be related to the course information I have learned in this class this semester. I attended court on Tuesday, February 27th, at the Black Hawk County Courthouse in Waterloo, Iowa. My observation lasted for about two hours between 2 p.m. and 4 pm. During my time, I witnessed the voir dire
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science” (The Economist). 3) According to your article, how has the phenomenon affected various groups in the criminal justice system? Various groups within the criminal justice system have been affected by this phenomenon, both in and out of the courtroom. Prosecutors now often need to spend additional time explaining to juries why certain kinds of evidence are not relevant. Mr. Durnal explains that prosecutors have even introduced a “negative evidence”
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Forensic Accounting in Practice Twana Bethea BUS 508 May 21, 2013 Dr. Phyllis Praise Abstract Forensic Accounting is the application of the skills and training of a chartered accountant to disputes and investigations. Fraud is usually hidden in the accounting systems of organizations and that’s where forensic accountants play a critical role. Forensic accountants are contacted by companies when they need to figure out where a fraud was committed in their company. The accountants interview
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Courtroom Observation Case White v. Gibbs John Simpson Louisiana Tech Abstract This paper observes the court case of White v. Gibbs in which Debbie White is suing Patrick Gibbs and O’Malley’s Tavern under the civil provisions of Indiana’s Dram Shop Act (National Conference of State Legislatures, 2014). Deborah White brought this court case to the Supreme Court in order to argue against the summary judgment filed by the defendants. A summary judgment would allow for them to avoid going to
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Time Series A time series is a sequence of observations which are ordered in time (or space). If observations are made on some phenomenon throughout time, it is most sensible to display the data in the order in which they arose, particularly since successive observations will probably be dependent. Time series are best displayed in a scatter plot. The series value X is plotted on the vertical axis and time t on the horizontal axis. Time is called the independent variable (in this case however, something
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