Local Court in New South Wales on Friday. 2. What kind of hearing did you attend? (e.g. sentence, summary trial, committal hearing, jury trial, mention, call-over etc) I attended a sentence hearing for the matter R vs Williamson. His Honour Judge D Frearson SC presided. The defendant had pleaded guilty prior to this hearing on 15th October 2013. 3. What were the charges against the defendant? Were these summary or indictable offences? How did you know this? Williamson entered a guilty
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group? They are judges, prosecuting attorneys, defense attorneys, public defenders, and other professionals. The outsiders include defendants, witnesses, jurors, and victims. All of these people have to work together to make the court room operate in a smooth, fluid manner in order to accomplish a common goal. If you think about it, the court room work group should operate like body, where all of the nerves have to work together and communicate to function properly. The judge is the brain and
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any legal representation that an accused needs when it stands accuse of a crime. There the court will mediate in the form of a judge to make sure that both prosecution and defense attorneys do not deviate from the process of seeking justice in a manner that it is equal, fair and just. In case that the judge may display bias, and makes serious legal errors, that judge may be held accountable for making the mistake by which cases will then be sent to an appellate court, where a decision can
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law developed by judges who issued their opinions when deciding cases. The principles announced in these cases became precedent for later judges deciding similar cases. The English common law can be divided into cases decided by the law courts, equity courts, and merchant courts. Under a common-law system, disputes are settled through an adversarial exchange of arguments and evidence. Both parties present their cases before a neutral fact finder, either a judge or a jury. The judge or jury evaluates
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some cases without any sufficient evidence against these people. The purpose of this essay is to find the rules of the expert’s evidence opinions in criminal law and how the experts can present the evidencein any case. What is the procedure of the judge which can accept the expert witness opinion or to test the evidence before admitting it to the court. Recognising the issues which have happened in the past due to expert witness evidence without any sufficient proof and whether it is real evidence
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previous decisions, a consistent set of case law is developed from which the public can draw conclusions about how a court will decide a current or future case. - Would not a better way simply be for the judge to apply whatever law is applicable based on the facts of the current case? If the judge based on the facts of the current case, it has a lot of uncertainty for different personality. The court need continuously reevaluate the legal underpinnings and accepted doctrines. This would be a huge
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they all seem to intertwine. The first definition is; “a formal legal meeting in which evidence about crimes, disagreements, etc., is presented to a judge and often a jury so that decisions can be made according to the law.” The second being, “a place where legal cases are heard.” The third definition states, “An official group of people (such as a judge and jury) who listen to evidence and make decisions about legal cases.” There are many different types of courts at the local, state, and federal level
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law does’. According to the realists, law consists of a body of generalisations about the conduct of judges or officials. For example Cook treats rules as descriptions of past decisions. He states: “This past behaviour of the judges can be described in terms of certain generalisations which we call rules and principles of law”. Law is, according to the realists jurists, what officials (judges) do; it is not to be found in, and cannot be deduced from, the mere rules by which those officials are
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Monday, Wednesday Class #38 STATE OF LOUISIANA * DOCKET #: 10-3811 Division “J” * VERSUS * 19TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT * DARRYL HUNT * PARISH OF NEW ROUGE POST-TRIAL BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF THE DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL _________________________ TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Statutes U.S. Const. amend. XIV………………………………………………………………5
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However, the actions of the court systems move at such a slow and hindered pace because of the bureaucracy of motions and objections among many others. The following is a review of the type of court system the United States has and why. Along with judges sentencing goals and philosophy; and sentencing innovations. Dual Court System The United States has a dual court system, comprised of the State Courts and the Federal Court Systems. Within both the State and Federal court systems there are several
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