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Court Room Observation
For the assignment of courtroom observation, I went to New Britain Courthouse. I had a choice of viewing civil court, or criminal court. Naturally, I thought criminal court would be more interesting, so I found the court room, 1B, and sat in the back to witness the different cases at hand.
In the courtroom, the first thing I noticed is that the judge basically acted the same way for every case. What he said was pretty much the same, and asked the same questions each time such as if the defendant knew their crime, if the defendant had ample time to discuss their situation with their lawyer, and also if the defendant understood their punishment and if they were under the influence of any drugs or alcohol at the time their sentence was being read to them. As usual, there were prosecutors, defendants, their clients, and also a recorder. Also in every case, two officers stood by the defendants, I guess for either protection, or just in case if the defendant got......


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