Inside the Criminal Courts,9780890895207

Inside the Criminal Courts

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ISBN13: 9780890895207
ISBN10: 0890895201
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-10-30
Publisher(s): Carolina Academic Pr
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Author Biography

David R. Lynch is currently an associate professor at Weber State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter One The Legal Education of Lawyers and Judges 1(20)
A woman whose career ambition is to defend poor people accused of crimes paints a stark picture of the law school experience. In doing so, she gives in-sights into the educational experience which helps shape future defense lawyers, prosecutors, and judges.
Chapter Two A Day in Juvenile Court 21(20)
A young prosecutor who has always worked exclusively in adult criminal court finds himself unexpectedly assigned for a day to juvenile court when the juvenile court prosecutor calls in sick. He struggles to grasp the strange, new legal environment which now confronts him.
Chapter Three Justice Delayed 41(20)
A professional court administrator, under intense legal pressure to speedily schedule cases for court, confronts the many forces of delay. Meanwhile, a law school graduate unable to pass the bar exam helps to mitigate the dam-age to defendants caused by court delay by running a successful bail bond business.
Chapter Four The Criminal Defense Attorney 61(20)
A public defender ponders the hardships associated with defending the criminally accused and struggles with whether or not she should resign from criminal defense work entirely.
Chapter Five The Prosecuting Attorney 81(16)
A young county prosecutor wields a huge amount of discretion over people's lives while carrying out the various duties of the office. His mission to see that justice is done must be performed in an arena filled with ethical dilemmas, creating a situation that sometimes leads to prosecutorial pathologies.
Chapter Six The Judge 97(22)
Two judges, a lower court judge and a trial-level judge, go about the ordinary business of profoundly affecting people's lives. While not as glamorous or as studied as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, these every-day jurists decide the fate of many without ever setting national policy or striking down legislation.
Chapter Seven The Witness 119(16)
Witnesses in court come in many varieties, including the victim-witness, the defendant-as-witness, the eyewitness, the character witness, the expert witness, and the police witness. Each of these witnesses is introduced and his or her story told.
Chapter Eight The Steps of Due Process 135(20)
A law student spends the summer between his first and second year of law school interning at a public defender's office. During the internship, he has the opportunity to observe and learn the purposes of each step of the court process from first appearance through appeal.
Chapter Nine The Plea Bargain 155(22)
Claude Richards turned clown a lucrative job after college so that he could attend law school and one day do trials. Instead, he wound up becoming a professional plea bargainer. Claude's perspectives on what it is like to be a guilty plea facilitator are presented, along with the perspectives on plea bar-gains of a defendant, prosecutor, and crime victim.
Chapter Ten The Trial (Part I) 177(18)
A twenty two year old Muslim immigrant religiously weds two young girls in a marriage arranged by the families according to old world customs. The young man is charged with bigamy and statutory rape, and the case goes to trial. A jury is selected, the prosecutor makes an opening statement, and the state presents its case-in-chief.
Chapter Eleven The Trial (Part II) 195(26)
The defense makes its opening statement and presents its case-in-chief. Both sides make impassioned closing arguments. The judge instructs the jury be-fore dismissing it to begin its deliberations.
Chapter Twelve The Jury Deliberates 221(16)
A jury of twelve ordinary people must struggle to achieve unanimous agreement in a very unusual bigamy and statutory rape case. Through leadership, compromise, and judicial insistence, a verdict is finally reached.
Chapter Thirteen Sentencing 237(20)
With the help of a pre-sentence investigator and non-mandatory sentencing guidelines, a trial-level judge must decide the appropriate sentences in three, non-routine cases. No easy sentencing solutions are apparent for cases involving a teenager pressured by his father to deliver drugs, an unrepentant burglar dying from cancer, and a battered woman who executed her abuser.
Chapter Fourteen The Appeal 257(24)
On just her third day with the public defender's office, a recent law school graduate is given an intimidating assignment: handle the appeal of spoiled, young man convicted of the murder of his own rich parents.
Chapter Fifteen Problem-Solving Courts 281
Tired of the impersonal, adversarial, revolving-door nature of traditional criminal courts, a county experiments with a different approach: problem-solving courts. The county begins by developing a "drug court." It goes on to try its hand at "mental health court" and "domestic violence court" as well.

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