Examples Of Court Observation

The court observation which I attended was in a criminal court. The trial took place in the Municipal Court of Pennsylvania. The trial took place in room 608 on April 13th 2015 at 2:00 in the afternoon. I chose this room by walking around and randomly picking it. The judge was the Honorable Charles Erlique. The defense attorney was Robert Link and the Prosecutor was Edward Jeremella. The eye witness in this case was the police officer. The trial lasted for about two hours. This was the second time I had been to the court house. The first time I went the trial, it was almost ending and I did not get enough information. This case was a bench trial. The judge was coherent during the trial, he was respectful to both parties. At the end of the trial to get more information I asked the council who was watching the trial to give me a

The defense attorney’s first argument was that the vehicle itself was not owned by the defendant. The defendant was barrowing the automobile from another person. The attorney argued that the fire arm may not have even been the defendants. Going off the fact that because the vehicle was cleaned by the defendant, he may or may not have put the fire arm there is not proving it is his beyond reasonable doubt. The defense attorney also questioned the police officer that followed the defendant. This is called cross examination. He asked questions such as “How far were you driving behind the defendant?” “How was the defendant’s driving?” However the key question that was asked was, “Whether or not the police officer noticed the defendant lean over anytime towards the glove compartment where the fire arm was”. The police officer answered no he did not see him lean towards the glove box. The defense attorney then stated that the defendant was 5’7 and to reach the glove box to hide a fire arm he would have had to lean