'Summary of Courtroom Observations\r'

'On October 8, 2009 I attended a general academic terms court at the Lexington County Courthouse. At this period the Judge was hearing inculpative vindications. at that place were some people in the rather stupendous royal court that day. The courtroom was much larger than the one I had visited during drug court here in Spartanburg. Before the day’s session began I could see many defence attorneys going all over their cases with their clients, some of whom were habiliment lurid orange jumpsuits that told me they were held in lag prior to their court hearing. Some of the refutal lawyers appeared to have more than one client.\r\nI nonice that there were deuce gentlemen pose at the state solicitor’s table and some other, boyisher, gentleman would periodically whirl up to them and hand them some documents. The two state solicitors already had a large stack of papers next to them. seat down and to the odd of where the evaluator would sit, erst he ar rived, was a woman at a computer, the court reporter and a short(p) further to the left of her was the salesclerk of court. Stationed at a door to the left and behind the large raised desk that was the hear’s desk was a bailiff.\r\nThere was another bailiff stationed at the rear door of the courthouse where I walked in through while entering. The think walked in and before he did so we were told of his approaching and were pick uped to raise. The judge was a noble older man with gray hair. He looked very bored with what was ab out to choose up his day; ready to add up it over with. Before he gave his book of instructions to the pursuance to begin with their first base plea pact, he took his time going over some of the paperwork placed on his desk by the clerk of court.\r\nThen finally he was ready to begin the day’s court session. When given(p) the nod of approval, the prosecution stood up and called out their first case. The first defendant that was calle d forth was a young woman who had pled guilty to check fraud. I do not hark back the myopic amount, unless I do remember that it was not very much money. She was given two years on probation with a suspended objurgate on snuff it of that. Another case that was called a teeny bit later was for armed looting of a convenience store.\r\nThis case stuck out to me because the store that was robbed was one I had been to many times. The young man who pled guilty to this hatred received much more time than the check fraud woman. He was overly one of those individuals dressed in bright orange and they took him a federal agency immediately. I noticed for the most part there were not very many family members of the individuals there. There seemed to be a small group of students from USC capital of South Carolina doing the same thing I was, notice court exercises.\r\nThey appeared to be a little older than me and could have been law students. To all of the people who were the normal c ourtroom players I could tell that the day’s proceeding were nothing new to them. The judge would ask the defendant how he or she pled and they would suppose guilty. The prosecution would then tell the judge what they felt the punishment should be as determined by the plea bargain that they had made and the judge would agree with it and would sentence the offender. The whole process seemed very exigent and scripted.\r\nThere was seldom a loss from the way that one trail was conducted to the way the next was conducted. I defiantly knew that all of the courtroom dramas on television would never last if they showed plea bargains instead of entire jury trails. The plea bargains seemed like little more than a official ritual that needed to take place scarce to get a paper signed. There is plausibly a much red-hot way to conduct plea bargains but I’m sure it probably would conflict with an offender’s payable process laws.\r\n'