According to the textbook the courtroom work group is the professional courtroom actors, including judges, prosecuting attorneys, defense attorney, public defenders and others who earn a living serving the court. The jobs of the courtroom work group vary from person to person. The courtroom work group interacts in many ways on a daily basis. All of the different professionals have their specific jobs to do.…
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In the courtroom there is a group of key players that work together on a daily basis. They are made of a group of professionals. These professional are those who know all aspects of a criminal trial and they work together in performing the duties of the court.…
First, what is a courtroom work group? According to Schmalleger (2011) "Participants in a criminal trial can be divided into two categories: professionals and outsiders. The professionals are the official courtroom actors; they are well versed in criminal trial practice and set the stage for and conduct the business of the court. Judges, prosecuting attorneys, defense attorneys, public defenders, and others who earn a living serving the court fall into this category". Schmallerger (2011) later describes the professional courtroom actors as the "courtroom work group". The courtroom work group includes, Judges, prosecuting attorneys, defense attorneys, public defenders, bailiffs, local court administrators, court clerks, court reporters and expert witnesses. All of these people work together with one common goal, to…
A courtroom workgroup in the U.S criminal justice system is an informal arrangement between a criminal prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, and the judicial officer. The courtroom working group seeks to bring justice to all. It ensures that all parties are accorded due fairness and equal opportunity regardless of gender, race, age, religious affiliation nor any other factor. They also see to it that trials are completed successfully. These individuals are grouped into two categories. These are the professionals and the outsiders. Professionals are the court officers such as the judges, attorneys, public defenders, defense attorneys and court reporters. I believe that the criminal prosecutor, defense attorney, and a judicial officer make up the most common courtroom work group. The daily interaction of this group is to make sure that rules are being followed in each group. Also making sure it is given in a timely fashion. The courtroom work group needs to work in order to offer plea bargains and select jurors.…
Away is a play written by the Australian playwright Michael Gow, published by Currency Press in 1986. First performed by the Griffin Theatre Company in 1986, it tells the story of three internally conflicted families holidaying on the coast for Christmas, 1968. It has become one of the most widely produced Australian plays of all time and is part of the Higher School Certificate syllabi or general High School Curriculum in many states, including Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. It is also used as a college text, but this move has been widely regarded as a bad idea due to the lack of interest that is generated from students in the Australian Capital Territory. This is especially the case when one considers the fact that Gow did not "know what play is about" until some time after he wrote it and got feedback from a fan. This fan was probably his reflection in the mirror.…
In the United States criminal justice system, a courtroom work group is an informal arrangement between a criminal prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, and the judicial officer. This is a foundational concept in the academic discipline of the criminal justice system. Everyone in the courtroom group tries to get along. Often they act as if they are good friends. Although the members of the court group are against each other, at the end of the day justice is being served in the courtroom regardless of the gender, race, or national origin. The role of the prosecutor is to represent the government and prove the defendant is guilty of the crime. Prosecutors participate in, jury selection; opening statements, direct examination, cross-examination, and closing arguments. The prosecutor also makes sure that the jurors can be fair as well. Prosecutors are able to determine which cases to work by confirming if perhaps the case has merit, and sufficient evidence to purse a conviction. If the criteria for taking a case were more or less stringent, it would make the police officers job a lot harder by having to go more in depth then what they have to go through nowadays, and this is due to the prosecutor having to prove even more evidence beyond a reasonable doubt in court. Nonetheless, if the criteria for taking of a case were less stringent I think that the officers and the prosecutors jobs would be too easy to prove if someone is guilty, and it would not give a defendant a fair trail. Perhaps the change that I would make to the courtroom work group would be that, many people believe that the courtroom work group should consider adding more security. Though out the years several cases…
With that comes a lot of room for corruption to occur. Also with pressure being put on the public defender and prosecutors because of limited jail space it is hard for justice to be served. I believe that some stronger controls should be entered into the plea bargaining system. The plea bargaining system should be monitored more closely to watch for corruption in the system. Also to help the prosecutor and public defender to serve justice a little better there would need to be more holding facilities so that more criminals that deserved it would end up in…
The selection the courtroom workgroup makes can also lead to longer sentences because they are the people that choose the going rate. The criminal justice system tries to speed up the process because of how many cases they have to deal with which leaves the workgroup to weight what cases are most important than others. This fast process can lead to the system having wrongful convictions because of so many cases they have. Walker talks about Huff’s study that estimated on wrongful convictions and concluded that about one percent were due to mistakes from the criminal justice system (2015, p. 76). One percent or not wrongful convictions is still a problem and the way the Courtroom workgroup decide that should be…
The judicial courts is one of the most difficult undertaking out of all the judicial system. Even though law enforcement officers apprehend offenders, it is still up to the prosecutors to retrieve and analyze all evidence from the scene of the crime that the officers collected, so that they can compile a case against the defendant. Then there is the defense also gathering information to make a case to prove the defendant is innocent. Now if I was the boss for the day I would make some changes to help make both sides more successful.…
There are many parts of the courtroom work group professionals who successfully pursuit justice and the process of convicting a criminal. The courtroom work group has a major role in convicting and finalizing a case. In the courtroom work group, there are three groups of people that hold the entire courtroom together. Without the work group, the courtroom would not flow, and coming to a conclusion to the case would not be as easy. The work group is made up of the Judge, the Defense Attorney, Public Defender, Court Recorders, and the Prosecutor Attorney. Which all are part of the courtroom work group which they work together to reach a decision, in the case by interacting among themselves and who’s involved an implicit recognition and rule of civility, cooperation, and sharing their goals. There are many roles in the work group, and if they are not all followed through with then the results could be different than what they should be. In this paper, we will look at the roles of the prosecutor, how the criminal justice funnel effects the courtroom work group and what will help eliminate the funnel and reduce the backlog of cases.…
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According to Schmallager (2011), criminal trial participants are dividing in two categories that are professionals and outsiders. The professional are the people who work in the courtroom. They are well trained to conduct the business of the court; for example; prosecuting attorneys, judges, defense attorneys and others who work in the courtroom falls into this category. They are also known as courtroom work group. The outsiders are those who temporarily are involved with the court, but they are not familiar with the court organization and procedures. Outsiders include jurors and witnesses, also defendants and victims. Judges has primary duty. It is describe as follows: the judge is responsible for the right of the individual and the interest of the administration of criminal justice. The purpose of the criminal trial is to be sure the prosecution has established the law as required. Judges holds the ultimate authority and ruling in law. The defense is the attorney that specialized in criminal law. He is responsible of representing the accused after being arrested and make sure his or her rights are not violated during the process. As a good reader I would recommend the courtroom group to lower the work load. What I mean is to try to hear less case a day, but I understand that criminal cases have increased tremendously.…
The government should regulate the sale of human organs because people are being forced to wait in line for a cadaverous kidney for ten years. “We 're losing some 6,000 people per year to the organ shortage — more than twice the number killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,” says David L. Kaserman, a professor of Economics at Auburn University in Alabama. “It 's completely unethical to let so many people die every year simply because some people think it 's wrong to pay donors.”…