Courtroom Workgroup Paper
Fertina Bryant
CJA/204
Feburary 23, 2013
Christopher Berry

Courtroom Workgroup Paper * The author will determine courtroom groups, how the groups interact daily, and recommend changes to the groups. The author will also describe prosecutor roles and the cases he pursues. Finally, the author will elaborate on the funnel of criminal justice with the backlog among the courtroom group, the court system, give an example, and explain how to eliminate backlog cases. * Working the Courtroom System * Courtroom workgroups consist of a judge, a prosecutor, and a defense. These courtroom groups remain Senior Officers in court who determines the appropriateness of conduct. These officers settle questions of …show more content…

One in five carry a firearm for protection defense attorney’s and guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment: The Right to Counsel. The Right to Counsel extended to first appeal, probation, and parole hearings as well as juvenile proceedings. * Clearly, the role of the defense attorney remains not to decide the clients guilt or innocence. Getting a client off on a technicality also proves not the role of the defense attorney. Law schools usually only provide a semester or so for criminal law, especially criminal law defense (Byrd, 2001). Whether they present as court appointed lawyer’s, volunteers, or receive hourly fees, they remain selected from a list of attorneys, who may take the cases grudgingly. * The public defenders remain paid by the jurisdiction on a fixed salary (Dempsey, 2003). Sometimes the job presents as a stepping stone. The contracted lawyer’s remain a new system of providing defense councel agrees to represent a certain number of indigent defendants over a period of time. This is not carried out by a public defender. There is a television myth. However, the crafty defense lawyer is a myth. They are usually overworked conscientious public defenders. Frequently, the attorney’s present assigned to courtrooms, not clients. Under ten minutes is an average consultation for an estimated 34,250 people, who remain wrongly, convicted annually (Dempsey, 2003). * After