Escambia County Court Case Study

The Magistrate courtroom was small and condense with only 24 people seated in the gallery. Chief Magistrate Judge Holmes sat at a raised podium in front of two American flags. Dylan Ledbetter was escorted into the courtroom by Deputy Sheriffs Wright and Bird. The defendant was wearing his detention center uniform and chained handcuffs. After showing respect to Judge Holmes, the Clerk of the Court Tahnicia Phillips revealed a bible and swore in Cobb County Deputy M. Owen. District Attorney Lengen gave a brief introductory statement and then asked Deputy Owen to recall the incident to the best of his knowledge.

UPDATE #2: On October 18, 2016, nearly one year after Peyton's arrest, the St. Clair County Circuit Court ordered him to be released from jail and into his father's custody.

Elmore County DHR’s testimony revealed that based on the request for a hearing that the non-custodial parent’s (NCP) attorney sent, the agency is under the impression that the NCP’s attorney is of the opinion that the court findings is that the arrears could not be determine; dismiss the arrears. The custodial parent (CP), Tracey Boozer, applied for services on June 10, 2014. At that time, the agency completed an Affidavit of Past Due Support based on the divorce and the courts payment record. The agency filed a contempt action with the court against the NCP. On October 27, 2014, the court referee ruled that it was unable to determine the arrears. The order quoted “Arrears are unable to be determined after testimony.” Afterward, through

The facts of the case in Deshaney V. Winnebago County (1989) start with Joshua Deshaney’s mother suing Winnebago County’s Department of Social Services. Joshua Deshaney lived with his abusive father. Joshua’s father beat him so bad that he ended up with serve brain damage. The damage was so bad that Joshua is now permanently mentally disabled. During the time that Joshua lived with his father and endured the abuse the Winnebago Department of Social Services was made aware of the abuse and has several complaints about the abuse Joshua endured. They Winnebago Department of Social Services said they did everything in their power to protect Joshua. They did not however remove Joshua from the fathers care/home therefore the mother of Joshua Deshaney

Throughout the course of this investigation, the following courthouse was researched to locate any all court documentation for Dennis Baker and Charlotte Baker, as the search was expanded to include Shawna Thornton’s affiliation with the Bakers’.

The Wayne County commissioners approved a request from Prosecutor Dan Lutz to appoint the Holmes County Prosecutor’s Office to take over a case involving a former Wooster Police officer who allegedly broke into a current officer’s home.

The Supreme Court is the highest court in the nation and is responsible for being the impartial judge in interpreting the law of the land. One of the biggest struggles the Court can face is having to rule for what is constitutional over what is morally right. This is not referring to Plessy v. Ferguson where we only know it was morally wrong in hindsight. This is referring to a case where the judges knew fully well that what had happened was a tragedy and an injustice yet, they had to rule against what any normal human being would vote for. Imagine the difficulty in that. Now, imagine the public backlash when it was announced. The conflict of morality vs. constitutionality in the Court in the case of DeShaney v Winnebago County is apparent

In department 47 there were many trails going on. The judge was calling by the numbers in the line and each trail has a lawyer who represent his plaintiff or defendant. One of these trail was Pascal Anton Case Number C1638971 the, she was not present for her trail for that the Judge jumped it. The another case was Number 12 but I am not sure about the Name, but we saw the judge asking the defendant to stay away from that woman or he is going to sentenced him for three years. What we observed in department 47, there were no Juries we were surprised because it's kind of different from what we thought. The judge calling by Numbers and there are only lawyers of defendants or plaintiff.

While at GPM, I attended a session of Treatment Accountability Court (“TAC”) (formerly Mental Health Court) and DUI/Drug Court. Both Courts operate similarly. Several hours before the court session, members of the legal community meet to discuss the progress of each participate scheduled to appear that day. Legal representatives include members from the Sheriff’s Office, Solicitor General’s Office, Public Defender’s Office, the judge who presides over the proceeding, a Program Coordinator & Counselor, a misdemeanor probation officer, and a felony probation officer. The group discusses the status of each participate and whether they’re meeting the conditions set forth by the court. The programs are conducted in phases,

Chosen arbitrarily, this report by League of Women Voters is definitely obscure for readers who are new to a context of Shelby County v. Holde case and does not provide any kind of references for background or alternative opinions. However, the simplicity of reasoning on impact of the case, which is translated by quoting president of organization Elisabeth MacNamara creates a kind of biased impression on a topic, presenting the opinion that the court decision merely “left voters and their rights at risk of discrimination” (“Hundreds…”), even though a well thought through alternative opinion is

The room in which the men are sitting and debating the case has a table with each of the men sitting around it. Jury member number one, who sits at the head of the

The trial would last three days. Sitting through it, side by side in the rear of the courtroom, were two women who had traveled hours to get there. Unlike almost everyone else on the spectator benches, they were not relatives or co-workers or close friends of the accused.

This dialogue repeated itself several times over the next 30 minutes with most of the defendants having been moved to courtroom 406. At this point, the crown requested that a Judge call a 10 minute recess so that she could locate the paperwork for one of the contested release cases, and the Judge obliged.

Everyone was subjected to security including the lawyers and employees of the court house. Everyone was either in some type of uniform or dressed extremely formal, even if they were just spectators. Few people were in the court room, but not many. The judge, lawyers and people that were being represented had not still entered the building. Moments later the plaintiff, Dawn-Evans Donahue, and the defendant Joseph Donahue with their lawyers Michael Morris and John M. Makowski, entered the court room. They had taken their place on each of the court room to make their cases in front of the judge. The bailiff then told us to all rise for their entrance of Judge Polansky. We all rose and took our seats. The court had now been set in motion for deliberation. The judge was wearing the standard gown that is portrayed in films and in real life, there was no jury because this was not a trial court, this was a family matters case.

On a daily basis in the trial court room, are the following: The trial judge, the bailiff/sheriff, the district attorneys, the clerks, the witnesses and the defendant. In this article written by E. Ray Stevens, he explains to his audience the details behind one of the major jobs in a trial courtroom, the trial judge.