...Courtroom Players Response There are several components or key players that work together to make a courtroom function; each role is needed to successfully complete a trial. There are two categories of participants in a trial: professionals and outsiders or nonprofessional courtroom participants. The group of professionals is what is known as a courtroom work group. A courtroom workgroup includes judges, prosecuting and defense attorneys, and many others who earn their living by serving the court (Schmalleger 2012, p.312). A courtroom work group must interact with each other on a daily basis in order to keep the courtroom functioning properly. The group must work together in order to form stable working relationships and work toward the common goal of effectively delivering justice. “Stable and familiar relationships among the group members are more likely to lead to close working relationships. This often leads to better negotiations, less reliance on formalities, more utilization of informal arrangements, and the creation of cooperative relationships. Group interactions play a significant role in the way that one group member responds to another” (Mays, Chapter 3, 2011). One of the major key players in the work group is the prosecutor. Schmalleger (2011) stated, the prosecutor is “an attorney whose official duty is to conduct criminal proceedings on behalf of the state or the people against those accused of having committed criminal offenses” (p. 315). The prosecutor...
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...Courtroom Players Response Ginger Robinson CJS/200 November 30, 2014 Lee Rankin Courtroom Players In most courtrooms, there are groups of essential players that work together on a regular basis. They are composed of a combination of professionals. These professional are the ones which understand all phases of a criminal trial, and they all work together in fulfilling the functions of the court. These courtroom workgroups are all of the professionals that aid in a court process. These professionals include the judge, the prosecuting attorneys, the defense attorneys, public defenders and all other persons which may work for the courts. These individuals work collectively with the basic purpose of conducting successful courtroom proceedings. Each of professional in the courtroom workgroup has their own set of responsibilities. The prosecutor is accountable for exhibiting the state’s evidence as well as presenting and preparing the state’s case against the accused. It is also the prosecuting attorneys responsibility to decide which matters should be tried or not. It is the prosecutor who makes these determinations based on a several sets of criteria. Most prosecutors will study the evidence against the accused, study the crime, as well as many other factors. If the criteria for taking a case were less stringent our society would be in for some extremely hard days because as it stands now prosecutors plea bargain so many instances and criminals get to serve less time or...
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...Courtroom Players Response Tasha Lynch CJS/200 December 14, 2012 William Patton Courtroom Players Response A courtroom work group refers to the professional key players in a courtroom. These professional key players include the judges, prosecuting attorneys, defense attorneys, public defenders, and other member who make a living serving the court. The judge is the lead player in the court room and holds all the authority. “The prosecuting attorney represents the government or the interest of the community in a criminal trial.” (University of Phoenix, 2011). The defense attorney is a trial lawyer that is either hired or appointed to represent a person accused of a crime and to make sure that the rights of the defendant are not violated by the criminal justice system. If the defendant is unable to afford a lawyer than a public defender will be appointed by the court to represent the defendant in court. The bailiff role is to maintain order in the court, call witnesses, announce the present of the judge, prevents the defendant from escaping and to supervise the jury. The courtroom reporter keeps records of all the activity that takes place during a trial. The courtroom clerk “maintains all records of criminal cases, including all pleas and motions made both before and after the actual trial. The clerk also prepares a jury pool, issues jury summonses, and subpoenas witnesses for both the prosecution and the defense. During the trial, the clerk (or an assistant) marks physical...
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...Should Cameras Be Placed in Courtrooms So That Criminal Trials Can Be Televised? It is axiomatic in democracy that everyone has access to the justice system and has the right to know how those laws are enforced. This can be ensured by having trials in courtrooms televised. Whether to have cameras in courtrooms or not was a huge debate that began back in 1977 in Miami (May 2008). After a long debate higher court judges decided to allow trials to be televised in Miami. Those debates never ended because of different judges all over the world having different opinions. Personally speaking, cameras should be allowed in courtrooms so that criminal trials can be televised, to make it clear to people what circumstances they would face if they were to do anything illegal. In every country in the world laws are made in the parliament by the government in regards to the opinions of higher court judges. Many proceedings carried in the parliament are allowed to be televised so that citizens can know what the laws they should abide by are. The irony in televising parliament proceedings is that people are allowed to watch laws being made, but they cannot see how they are being enforced. If criminal trials are televised then people can know how those laws are being enforced and would be more cautious by restraining themselves from breaking the law. This is because they would know what the circumstances of their actions are, thanks to the televised criminal trials. In the United States...
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...Michelle del Rosario Effective Leadership & Management Class - Barbara Miller Individual Paper March 14, 2013 The Application of the SCARF Model on the 2011 Re-Organization of SF Court Reporters I. INTRODUCTION On Friday, September 30, 2011, the San Francisco Superior Court (SFSC) laid-off a total of sixty-seven (67) employees, including twenty-nine (29) Certified Court Reporters. The Court started the fiscal year of 2011-2012 with a $13.75 million budget deficit, and had initially mailed out two hundred (200) pink slips in July, representing 41% of it’s staff. Fortunately, austerity measures (such as extending mandatory furlough days, enforcing voluntary unpaid time off, reducing office hours, and closing civil courtrooms) and very aggressive negotiations with the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) resulted in an additional $7.5 million that was used to salvage one hundred thirty-three (133) careers. September 30, 2011 was a devastating day to these sixty-seven (67) employees, and this paper will focus particularly on the effects of this re-organization on the emotions and reactions of the Court Reporters who were directly and indirectly affected. The SFSC website defines Court Reporters as “guardians of the record”. It is emphasized that not only are they Court employees, but they are also purveyors of transcripts for all interested parties. Their main job duties are providing legislated transcripts of criminal proceedings, and providing...
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...CAMERAS IN THE COURTROOM. Term Paper ID:19839 Get This Paper Free! or Buy This Paper Essay Subject: Right to fair trial vs. right of public to witness court proceedings & know what govt. is doing.... More... 7 Pages / 1575 Words 5 sources, 11 Citations, MLA Format $28.00 More Papers on This Topic Paper Abstract: Right to fair trial vs. right of public to witness court proceedings & know what govt. is doing. Paper Introduction: SHOULD CAMERAS BE ALLOWED IN THE COURTROOM? Introduction and Problem Statement Although the title of this research is broad, cameras, in the context of this paper, refers to television cameras. Courts in different jurisdictions in the United States impose differing restrictions on media coverage within courtrooms. Some jurisdictions do not allow cameras of any kind, requiring even the print media to employ artist sketches for any visual reporting of courtroom proceedings. Others permit the use of still cameras under controlled conditions. Few jurisdictions permit the unrestricted use of television cameras in courtrooms. Most jurisdictions that do permit television cameras in the courtroom do not permit continuous live coverage of the proceedings. Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while...
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...reality based television shows that depict the inner workings of a convicts mind and how the hero police officers, detectives, crime scene investigators and judges outwit, catch and then prosecute these lawbreakers. This exciting new fad has people watching these half hour shows and believing that they are entirely accurate. There are some television shows that use a great deal of fact in the creation of the show while other shows do not even come close. Since people have become enamored with courtroom based movies and television shows this has created a false sense of knowledge among common viewers that almost an entire nation believing that courtrooms consist of a defendant and a plaintiff (or a prosecuting attorney and a defense attorney) yelling back and forth at each other while a judge feverishly pounds his gavel on his podium in attempt to gain order in their courtroom. This is far from the way that an actual courtroom operates. Television shows will spark heated debate in a courtroom and solve each case in thirty minutes in order to collect ratings. According to Reality vs. Fantasy, “To...
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...win a state championship. The team has the skills and also has many great athletes as well as other schools do. The thing that other schools have is strength and faster people on their team. I have come up with the greatest solution that will make Saline football players and fans go crazy. The plan will come into effect starting now. By starting the taking of the steroids now, the players will be ready go by next august in their first game. The summer conditionings for football and all the lifting they do just don’t seem to pay off when season comes. During the summer they lift really hard, run a lot, and players work on their skills. When it comes game time in August, Saline thinks they are a step ahead of the other team on the field, but when the opponent steps on the field Saline becomes scared. The players become scared because they are really small compared to the opponents. Therefore, the other team has an advantage because they are a lot stronger. Steroids are the answer for the Saline football program. The program will do a fundraising event in which the team will earn a lot of money that will pay for all the steroids. Every Saline football player in the high school will start to take these steroids. Every player will go to a workout before school and receive one shot of this powerful drug. This drug will...
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...certain question that may be used to determine who has what card. Such questions include: Do you see two or more players whose cards sum to the same value?; How many 7s do you see?; or Of the four even numbers, how many different even numbers do you see?. Each player draws a question card until one has figured out what three cards they have attached to their head. I will use the process of elimination to determine which three cards I have. To determine which cards I possess, I need to look at my fellow players cards. I will first rely on Andy’s question card. He was asked if there are two or more players whose cards sum to the same value and he replied yes. I will add each of Belle’s cards together to get the sum and then I will add each of Carol’s cards to get the sum. After I determine each player’s card value, I will be able to tell which player’s cards have the same value. Next, I will use Belle’s question card. She was asked, “Of the five odd numbers, how many different Odd numbers do you see?” She replies, “All of them.” Belle only sees the odd cards, 1, 3, and 7 from Andy and Carol. Because of this, I can determine the first two cards that I have. To determine the last card, I will first find the sum of the two cards that I do know. Finding the sum will help to inform me if I am one the players that has cards containing the same value as the other player. Finally after finding the sum, I will take the two cards I know I have and subtract each from the sum. Doing so...
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...project has two parts Part I: To develop a comprehensive industry understanding for the chosen industry. The note should reflect its (industry) history in brief and evolution of the players, in particular for last 5-10 years. • The general environmental factors (political, social, economic, technological and global dimensions) must be described as to how these factors have affected the industry structure • The history of origin must be brief • How different players entered the industry with what capacities • How had been the growth and profitability history of the industry • If there a few groups that can be classified into different categories on the basis of technology, size, geography, distribution, brand or ownership, then describe their behaviour. • You should select the top 2 players based on net sales and describe their evolution strategies and performance. Part II: • For the player who is currently second in the sector, identify its source of competitive advantage and its competences that are critical to its success • In the light of the above findings at point 1, evaluate strategic options it has as of today and which option does your group consider it should adopt. In other words the strategic options chosen should be such that over the next 3-5 years it becomes number one player and has a distinct advantage over others. General Instructions: • The whole report must be in descriptive form. The analysis or commentary on the industry note can be added...
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...Athletes are treated as celebrities in American society and idolized by young athletes. The kids who see what their favorite player is doing through the media also are being influenced by them. The example that professional athletes set is very important because they looked up to. The example that many athletes set is unfortunately a negative one. Most people think that athletes make too much money but there are those that believe they are paid fairly. The enormous amount of money that professional athletes receive is having a negative effect on kids today. Athletes should make less money to play a game because the huge contracts that they receive give them power. They are concerned with making money and not the example that they are creating for today’s youth. Professional players feel that they earn every dollar of the millions they make every year to play a game. Those who think that players are paid fairly in professional sports argue that since athletes make so much money for their teams they should compensated accordingly. According to Forbes magazine "The average NFL team is worth $957 million" (Forbes, 2012). Teams generate large profits and as a result can afford to pay athletes large salaries. The past NFL season, players and team owners tried to come to an agreement before the season. According to Pete Prisco, a senior writer for CBS Sports "The players and owners can talk all they want about health issues, playing 18 games and any other issue thrown into these talks, but...
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...world and the number of players is nearing one billion. No one knows exactly why volleyball has such a huge following outside the United States but one thing is for certain: in the over 100 years of its existence, volleyball has gone through some dramatic changes. Changes made for the love of volleyball and its expansion as a popular sport. Volleyball, first known as mintonette, found its beginning in 1895. William G. Morgan, an instructor at a Young Men's Christian Association, developed a sport for young businessmen to keep in shape yet not be as physically demanding as another new sport, basketball. It was first played with a tennis net raised to a height of 6 and 1/2 feet off the floor and combined many of the rules of baseball, tennis, handball and basketball. The Basic Rules and Regulations of Volleyball, The server must serve from behind the restraining until after contact. Ball may be served underhand or overhand. Ball must be clearly visible to opponents before serve. Served ball must clear the net without touching the net. Failure results in a side out. First game serve is determined by a volley, each subsequent game shall be served by the previous game loser. Serve must be returned by a bump (dig) only. No setting or attacking a serve. Rotation, Team will rotate each time they win the serve. Players shall rotate in a clockwise manner. There shall be 4-6 players on each side. Playing the Game (Volley) Maximum of three hits per side. Player may not hit the ball twice...
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...Texoma Soccer Coaching Curriculum for ages 4-16 Texoma Soccer Questions? development@texomasoccer.org For more Fun Games, and Soccer Drills sign up online at: http://www.thechallengerway.com/ Table of Contents PLAYER DEVELOPMENT .................................................................................................... 3 AGES 4-5 .............................................................................................................................. 3 Coaching Points: ............................................................................................................... 4 Ages 6-10 .............................................................................................................................. 5 Coaching Points: ............................................................................................................... 6 Ages 11-15: ........................................................................................................................... 7 Coaching Points: ............................................................................................................... 8 Ball Familiarity ......................................................................................................................... 9 Dribbling: .............................................................................................................................. 9 Passing: ................................................................
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...comments in games towards arab players, every team involves arab players in israel but Beitar is the only team who never had an Arab player play for them. The owner Arkadi Gaydamak decieded to sign to Chechnyan players which were Muslim to change the view of the club and make a difference, some of the fans disagreed on the move and protested against it stating Beitar will stay "pure" forever and that the team is for the fans. The two players Dzhabril Kadiyev and Zaur Sadayev are muslim but are not arab, and actually look more european then Beitar Jerusalem players. Most of the fans are not against this move at all as long as the players help boost the club, those are just a few fans who are ruinning it for the whole team. Should the team break a tradition of 70 years without muslim or arab players , or listen to the fans which are actually the team and not have them on the team. The same team the players came from has in Isareli player Zeev Haimovich which was jewish, and there wasnt a big issue about it. The two chechnyan players arrived to the team and were booed at training and the owner of the club was cursed by the fans including the coach. FIFA the organization of soccer/football is against any type of racism and the new motto is to kick racism out of the fields, sport is supposed to bring us together, we are all human beings. The team lost their last match and Beitars own fans were cheering and for the loss just because of the two muslim players which didnt even have their...
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...6, 2013 The name of this guessing game is Guess Your Card. The purpose of this project is to employ various logical methods to figure out which cards each player possesses. The game is completed and won by the first player to correctly state what card he or she has. In this particular game setup there are 4 players, Andy, Belle, Carol and Myself. Each player picks 3 cards without looking at them, cards ranging from 1 thru 9. Andy has the cards 1, 5, and 7. Belle has the cards 5, 4, and 7. Carol has the cards 2, 4, and 6. As of right know I do not know what numbers I have in my possession. Andy draws the question card, “Do you see two (2) or more players whose cards sum to the same value?” He answers, “Yes.” Next Belle draws the question card, “Of the five (5) odd numbers, how many different odd numbers do you see?” She answers, “All of them.” Andy suddenly speaks up. "I know what I have," he says. "I have a 1, a 5, and a 7." To figure out what numbers I have in my possession, I will use the process of elimination. I know the numbers of the other players, and information given by the other players I can solve the answer of what are my card numbers. To first solve this problem, I remember that Andy said that he saw two (2) or more players whose cards sum to the same value. So knowing this I know that 2 of the players’ numbers will add up to the same sum. So I add both Belle and Carol card numbers individually and find out that their sums are different. The information gained...
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