Comments | evantd: Evan's Day In Court

evantd

Evan's Day In Court

Oct 26, 2006 15:42

I have a project in my government class which requires me to watch 8 hours of courtroom proceedings. This project seems dumb, I get 6 days out of class to do it so I cannot complain. I went down their yesterday to get my first four hours in. While I expected it to be boring and mind-numbing it was quite entertaining and interesting. I had never ( Read more... )

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I agree... Stealing is stealing... finalshowdown October 26 2006, 20:12:41 UTC

Yea that farmer thing deffintly sounds stupid.

tojo October 26 2006, 23:07:38 UTC

I was in a courtroom recently. I plead guilty though.

hostessinred October 27 2006, 11:49:43 UTC

Isn't court crazy? Although I know real life isn't like CSI, and thus less of the "got to prove through DNA or they aren't guilty", I was amazed how theatrical a courtroom can get. On the case I was sitting in the jury for, even before the case got under way, the judge called the attornies to his desk, leaned forward and said, "I'm warning you now.....STOP THESE SILLY ASS GAMES". That set the tone for the entire trial. The defense attorney used long heavy pauses, and then come right up to the jury box, look us deeply in the eyes....and made points that just left all of us dumbfounded. The prosecuting attorney was sick of this, so she would roll her eyes way back in her head, sigh loudly, make incredulous faces, and every once in a while throw her head into her arms on the table. I don't think the judge could even keep a straight face. He was angry of course at it all, but I think he was very amused too. I'm sure he's seen it all. Once we got back into the jury room, we could barely contain our laughter. Of course, we had to ( ... )