our courts at work
I decided to do an essay over the criminal courts from a slightly different point of view. Many people see the courts wheels in action on television when they read a verdict, and for many they watched the trial of the century on TV when O.J. Simpson was found not guilty; however, there are many things that happen most people still never hear about or just do not understand when they do. I decided to do the essay from the police officers point of view and follow it through the lengthy court battle to the final I work as a police officer in the down town area and have been assigned this beat for two years. On June 13, 1995 my partner and myself were patrolling the Central Business District when we received a disturbance call at approximately 4:17 PM from the dispatcher at the corner of Commerce and Industrial St. in Dallas. We were advised that one person had been stabbed and that two other people were believed to have weapons. We responded to the call and arrived in about two minutes. Once out, we found that several witnesses had held the suspect at the scene by tackling him and holding him to the ground. The complainant was stabbed once in the right side, once in the left chest, and s
This may seem like a outlandish amount of time for one case to take, however, I have found that this is the norm for cases that go to trial in Dallas. Some times the defiance will not drag its feet as long; but they know, the longer they wait to see the judge the fewer amount of people will remember the case and the fewer number of witness will testify. Once we had the suspect's name he was booked into jail on a third degree felony charge of aggravated assault and the previous warrants. My partner and I completed the paper work and tagged the evidence and turned every thing in to the Shift Sergeant to be forwarded to the C.I.D. deviation. The suspect had bail set at 25,000 based on his past criminal record and the fact he had already failed to show up at court in the past. The next working day the case was received by the C.I.D. supervisor and assigned to a investigator to follow up on and to file the case with the Dallas County District Attorneys office ( D.A. office ). The investigator was able to get a signed complaint from the complaintant that in affect stated the fact of the case and that the complainant would press criminal charges against the suspect. The investigator was also able to get most of the witnesses to come into the Department to give a formal witness statement of the facts and what they had seen. The investigator also received a medical report from Parkland hospital which indicated the complainant also had to receive surgery to recover glass fragments from his side and repair a punctured organ. Once the paper was done the file was reviewed by the D.A. Office for its recommendation. The D.A. Office accepted the case and filed the charges against the suspect. ustained several lacerations to the face, hands, and arms. My partner interviewed the witnesses while I got medical attention for the complainant and asked him what happened in the attack. The complainant stated to me that he had entered a Dart bus and sat down about three seats from the front. He said the suspect was setting two seats in front of h
Some common words found in the essay are:
St Dallas, Psychiatrist Six, True Bill, Parkland Hospital, County Jail, District Attorneys, OJ Simpson, Shift Sergeant, , Grand Jury, grand jury, da office, stated complainant, broken bottle, felony charges, set trial, charges suspect, set trial defiance, booked jail, trial defiance, aggravated assault, suspect mentally stable,
Approximate Word count = 1390
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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