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  • Essay / The Courtroom Hearing - 703

    To begin with, upon entering the courtroom, I observed seven long rows of benches, a table at the front with chairs, the bench of the judge and two televisions next to it and a large table in front of the judge with microphones. In addition, I detected things that I was not aware of, such as the presence of a sheriff, sitting at a table with a computer and a telephone, and next to the sheriff a small transparent room containing a microphone at the place. After the judge arrived, the hearings began, the lawyer from the first case was not present, so the Crown asked the sheriff what to do. At that point I was surprised as I was not familiar with the Crown discussing issues with the Sheriff. The sheriff claimed that the subsequent case would be convened, but by then the attorney had entered and the judge allowed the attorney to begin the hearing. This also surprised me, because I thought the lawyers' delay was unacceptable. As it was my first visit to court, I began to realize that the legal process was different from what I had imagined....