Court visit

On Wednesday I visited Rutherford county courthouse which was on Public square to attended trial, first of all when I arrived there was a long line outside of the court, as I’ve been told they were called to be juries as community service!

Went upstairs to the 4th floor to observe the trial. There were policemen waiting outside of the courtroom. One of the rooms was fill of people we could hear people laughing and clapping hands for the judge, but unfortunately we couldn’t interrupt, after a while a door was open and we’ve been asked to go to the end of hallway and make a space, two officers came with a several criminals about seven wearing orange suits with chains on there hands, feet, and went to a locked room.

The courtroom was not big and not like what I expected. The police men started to enter each prisoner as a group of two, and group of 5 as their cases. Everything was under control from the judge to the Clark, the attorneys.

As I entered the courtroom, I sat in the middle, facing the judge bench. I expected to see a trial with juries, but I ended up with a judge calling each prisoner by name read their indictment and give them a copy to read, ask them if they understand their charges, also he applied guilty in their behalf, sitting a new date. The group of prisoners was not English speakers so the court had an interpreter for them.

My thoughts for the visit are the court has its dramatic affect on real people. The respect the judge has from entire starting from police officers, attorneys, plaintiffs, and defendants. In 2014 I went to Mclean County in Illinois to visit the court with one of my friends, it is different. In the front of each courtroom a clerk standing, asking people for their Id’s and if they have an their names on the list he will let them in, otherwise they can’t go inside. I expected the same here, but no one asked us anything while we were there.

Over all my experience from the visit is