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moorepocket
i need to know what go on inside a courtroom when court is in session?

It's better to hear it from ppl than tv. Cause sometimes tv can be wrong.

I need details about the room, the people, judge, jury, lawyers, defendants, bailiff, and stenographer.

Please help.
nothing_plus_this
well, the actual court proceedings depend on the type of trial or hearing. if you are talking about a juried trial, then the layout is generally something like this (plus or minus some things that are unique or required of the specific court):

but, i'm assuming that the actual happenings inside the courtroom vary from court to court, state to state, case to case, etc.

i have attended a couple hearings (bail hearings, arragnments) and one "trial". but...i honestly can't say i noticed all that much. i was concentrating mostly on the people speaking. i was present for several witnesses for the trial, and it did play out much like the court scenes on television. as for the arraignments, those were quick and fairly confusing.
moorepocket
great thank you.

I can b.s. the rest for my assignment.
misoshiru
Well for each of the lawyers, the prosecutor and D.A., they make opening statements, then call up their witnesses, cross-examine them, have the opposing side cross-examine them, and then make their closing statements. Something like this.
moorepocket
wow thanks. My law study in high school didn't help, cause it's high school. That's a while back.
misoshiru
Haha, well during sophomore year, in our humanities classes, we had to put a certain author on trial. And in my class, we put George Orwell on trial for sedition. It was made out like a whole trial case as well.
moorepocket
hahaha. My class did 3 trials.
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