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The court I chose to visit was New York County Criminal
Court, located on Centre street. I sat in on arraignments,
which were being handled as if they were on a converor belt.
This process is the first opportunity a defendant has to
encounter a judge after being arrested. Most of the
individuals had been arrested the day before and were then
being arraigned on the following day, which goes with our
notion of a fair and speedy trail. The crimes which I saw
ranged from driving without a license to drug offenses,
which seemed to be the crime of choice for the day. The
assistant District Attorney had the task of presenting
evidence against each and every individual as if it were
their personal case, which I found to be straining. The
action taken by the judge varied on every case, some
defendants were jailed for seven days after they plead
guilty, some were released ROR, pending a future court date,
and others were jailed after bail was set. What I found......

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