Essays on Public Defender

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ABSTRACT The underage offenders can not be treated as adult criminals. Children have more chances to change. A special court system for juveniles has created a service-delivery system that provides minors with education, guidance, and supervision. The courts for juveniles also differ from the ones for adults. Commonly, the juvenile courts are informal in order not to stress the child, but minors has still have less rights in the court than adults. Also children can be punished for the cases that are absolutely legal for adults, like possession of alcohol and tobacco and running away from home. Minors are ...

Public defenders are often negatively portrayed in the media and popular culture. They are unfairly stigmatized and stereotyped as being incompetent, overworked, and lazy. While the prosecutor is responsible for zealously bringing forth and proving criminal charges against the defendant, it is the public defender’s job to zealously advocate and protect the defendant’s individual rights. In the community corrections realm, the role of public defenders should be to represent these low-level offenders and ensure that throughout the adjudication process, their rights are preserved. Within community corrections, a public defender may represent juvenile offenders or defendants who are ...

INTRODUCTION

Ethical violations occur in every business field, and the criminal justice system in no different. News reports are not scant concerning individuals in law enforcement, corrections and the courts who have violated ethical codes. Ethical codes exist in the criminal justice field to not only protect the official, but also to protect the public. When an individual in the field of criminal justice violates an ethical code, typically, many people are affected, and it does not matter if the violation was intentional or unintentional, or real or simply alleged.

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Judge John P. Contini, a judge in Broward County Florida, ...

The United States Courts- Chapter 5

Caylee Anthony’s murder takes place in Orange County, Florida in this case; courts in Orange County heard the case. In the case of appeals due to the charge of murder, Judges in the Appellate courts in Florida will listen to the case. If the Jury finds the defendant guilty and imposes the death penalty, the defendant has the opportunity of challenging the sentence in the federal courts. The issue describes the complexity of the court system in America. United States has close to 17,000 courthouses with elaborate architecture. The modern courthouses don a faceless structure due to lack ...

CCJ 101: Intro to Criminal Justice

1.) The different types of indigent defense systems include: states public defender agencies; state public defenders without commissions; state public defender agencies commissions with a director; states with a public defender commission with partial authority; state appellate commissions or agencies; and states without commissions (del Carmen, Vollum, Cheeseman, Frantzen, and San Miguel, 2010, p. 194). These public defender agencies derive funding from the states to provide full state funding and to expand the funding capacity of the state for indigent defense services. All these different types rely mainly on statewide resources. Each of the state public defender organization is composed of ...

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This paper explores the depiction of the American justice system as it is presented through the film My Cousin Vinny.

My Cousin Vinny is a comical presentation that depicts the American system of justice. It displays the diverse components of the system as a whole. There are numerous formalities that are being convicted of a misdeed, as a preparatory stage, the key participants in the judicial method and lawless individual process. During the movie, I observed the dissimilarities and likenesses between the way the movie depicts the lawless individual fairness method and the actual lawless individual fairness system. The movie is set ...

Private attorney, Court-appointed attorney, and Public defender

There are three different ways through which the defense attorney can give assistance to an individual in their cases. The three are; hiring a private attorney, use of a court appointed attorney, and use of an attorney that is provided by the public defender’s office. There are significant differences that are observed among the three categories of attorneys. Another difference arises from the way these attorneys operate. For the case of private attorneys, it can be said as a form of business undertaking. They usually have their own private law practice or working at law practice. This explains the reason ...