courtroom Options

[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_thi...]

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.