Courtroom Observation Essay: Assault And Battery Case

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One day, I went to the superior court in Boston and to the District court. One of the cases that I observed at the Superior court was a case of assault and battery that happened at a train station on August 2014. an African American male who pushed a young male on a train track at South Station MBTA. During the court session, everyone gathered together to hear the assault and battery case that take place at the train station. The African-American man accused of assault and battery. This subject, identified as a defendant who suffered psychological problems such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and ADHD. The lawyer who presented the defendant claimed that was not right in his state of mind when he pushes the victim at the train rail. The …show more content…

I observed the officer claim that when he questions the defendant, he felt as if he was off. The victim gives a full detail report to the officer, describing what the person looked like and everything. One of the officers had taken his picture, and sent one to the transit police, to see if it was the same person they were looking for. In the meantime, the woman officer was interrogating him about where he has been and of prescription medication that was discovered in his bag. However, the defendant lied about why his taking the medicine. I observed that the police mentioned the defendant was very yielding and being extremely corporative. The officer mentioned that he took him to the hospital for psych assessment being that he was acting odd, so they kept him because of strange behavior. I observed the officer mention that from there, they got a report that the defendant was the same person they were looking at in the pictures. It was at the hospital that they arrested the defendant. Doctor Evaluation At about 1:00 PM, they brought evaluation reports into the courtroom. Defendant got assessed by two different doctors and both came up with the same conclusion that he suffered from bipolar

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