Counsel for Mr. Manolakos: R.A. (Sandy) Ross, P. Doherty, A. Rinaldis Counsel for Mr. Brownell: C.R. Purves, B.L. Hickford, J. Mills Brief Summary of Trail This trail took place in Courtroom 20 in the B.C. Supreme Court where every visitor was required to pass through a security check. The case involves three homicides done 5 years ago by five members of an alleged Vernon, B.C. drug gang dubbed The Greeks (Organized crime group). The
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questions for the first time and giving us basic court room manner. All other cases was already started about an hour before, the only one that was available soon was the murder case. The court was supposed to start at 01.30 pm, but we entered the courtroom ten minutes late. Compare to my previous experience, the size of the room was much larger. There were only a few people watching the case and two security guards were standing near the entrance door. There were other students from other universities
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they saw. Mr. Adams is therefore aquitted, although one of them commited the murder. Outside of the courtroom one of the two brothers is pushed by the crowd and hit by a bus. If it was the murderer or not we do not know. But what we do know, is that their might be a killer that Mrs. Salmon witnessed against on free foot. The narrator of the story is most likely the prosecutor as he is in the courtroom, and talking to Mrs. Salmon , following her out after the trial and speaking of her as the ideal witness
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speaking loudly into the mic. The court clerk was very helpful. He printed out the court documents for me. A sheriff was present to transport the defendant. The Judge was wearing a court robe. The defendant had on an orange jumpsuit. The rest of the courtroom was dressed in business attire, including myself. During the court procedure, one party spoke and then the next one followed. Each parties took turns. The defendant’s lawyer tried his best to make his case. In the process, he came off as being
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Jury Nullification Jury selection plays a significant role in the criminal justice system. Their primary role of the jury lies within the courtroom setting during criminal proceedings. These individuals are charged with the responsibility of hearing testimony from the prosecution and defense and also evaluating any evidence brought before the court. Their understanding and interpretation of all testimony and evidence greatly determine the final result of the trial, the verdict. In many circumstances
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cover you don't know the story in till you read it. You don't a person till you talk to them and get to know them. You can't judge a person by their appearance. In Harper lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird she drive this point home by using a racist courtroom to teach us not to judge people by the color of their skin. Harper lee uses the setting to show us racist em. She uses a small southern town, a all white jury, white lawyers and a white judge. Even win all the evidence showing Tom Robinson is innocent
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Instructor Leesa McNeil Social Media “With the rampant expansion of social media and online technologies over the past decade, it is no surprise that Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and blogs have made their way into the courtroom, pervaded the jury box, and even pierced the veil of judges’ chambers”, Assoc. of Bar of St. of N.Y. Eth. Op. 2012-2, *4-7 (2012). Unfortunately, for a 52-year-old lawyer Joyce Nanine McCool, is disbarred after using Twitter and an online petition
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perpetrators to confront them in the courtroom with interrogation in the court room scenes. Also, he seeks to prove the innocence of his clients as he takes on their case which is murder most of the time (William Felchner, n.d). However, Matlock is assisted with a team of other lawyers. The show depicts the criminal courts component, because Matlock conducts a fair and impartial trial. This criminal defense attorney upholds the law in bringing the perpetrator to the courtroom in front of a judge who will
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“It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it” This quote can easily summarize the whole the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the novel takes places during the Great Depression in a small town in Maycomb Alabama, the story is told in a first person point of view through the eyes of Jean-Louise a.k.a Scout Finch, she lives with her brother Jem Finch and their widowed dad Atticus Finch who is a well known lawyer
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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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