Trial

Today I attended three trails. What an experience! I have never been in a court room setting; I have only seen it in movies or on TV, so today was a real eye opener and a great trip! The first trail that I attended was with Judge Daniel L Perry, and the first case was with Eric Moore he was born on November 22, 1987. He was in there for violating his probation; on October 7th he was caught using marijuana. He then read off quickly what he no longer had a right to because of his violation. This was hard to understand but what I got from what he said was the Mr. Moore gave up the right to hearing, cross examine, and appeal because of this violation. He then moved into asking where Mr. Moore bought the marijuana from, Mr. Moore then proceeded with stating the name of the individual where he got it from; Anthony Brooks. Judge Perry then posted his picture up on a monitor and asked Moore to confirm if that was him, Moore confirmed and Judge Perry stated that he was let out on bond. In the end Judge Perry stated that his probation would be modified, he needed to get a 40hour job, no drugs, no alcohol, nothing not even Nyquil without a doctor’s note.
The next trail that I attended was with Judge Rogers Padgett. This was civil court, and it was a sexual offender. I was in this court for a short period of time because I was approached by an officer that I was speaking to earlier; he advised that there was a trial going on in court room 16 about an attempted murder. So I was interested, I then left the sexual offender trail and entered the attempted murder case. The judge for this trail was William Fuente. This is what was interesting, and eye opening. I was witnessing everything, the evidence, the jury, the judge, objections; it definitely was a reality check. But interesting, exciting, and informative! This trial then had to break around 11:55 for lunch. Over all the experience was fascinating!