Court_Assignment

Court Assignment For the Court observation assignment I attended Dutchess County Criminal Courtroom on April 1, 2004. I was in the courtroom of the Honorable Gerald V. Hayes. At first I thought I was late, but when I got into the courtroom I found only the bailiff and stenographer just chatting away with two others in the room, which seem to be clerks, doing paper work. I went up to the bailiff to explain why I was there and if he could explain things to me. That turned out to be the best thing I did. Not only did he first give me the calendar for the day, he must have told others that I was there. Soon, Professor Witherwax came up to me and told me to move into the jury box so I could hear better and he said he would ask the Judge if I could sit in on the conference. I moved closer and then Witherwax came up to me and said I was allowed to move into the conference room, when they went in. I am happy he allowed me to because first and second call only took about an hour; judge, doe, conference, asked, room, mr, defendant, case, about, being, attorney, two, told, one, mcloughlin, first, defense, said, right, just, jury, john, go, courtroom, court, back, after, whole, walked, time, three, robbery, others, liley, guilty