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Daniel Hatcher
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DISCUSSION 3: Participant's Choice
July 17, 2007 - 10:22 AM
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Participants will decide all discussions from here on.
Topics should related to your experience with youth/teen courts, law, service, and civic engagement.
If you have a suggestion for a discussion, post it on the blog.
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Leslie Comeaux
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Re: DISCUSSION 3: Participant's Choice
July 26, 2007 - 10:16 AM
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Good morning! Lets talk Youth Courts, Teen Courts, Tribunal Courts.. What every you are involved with.
My name is Leslie Comeaux. I run a teen court for three cities in the Fort Worth area of Texas.
I would love to hear about what type of cases you process. What type of training you get through your courts.
lets talk
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Re: DISCUSSION 3: Participant's Choice
July 26, 2007 - 10:17 AM
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ysanycadvisor wrote:
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Re: DISCUSSION 3: Participant's Choice
August 8, 2007 - 09:39 PM
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In regards to training, as you mentioned, ours requires 6 different classes, resulting in 20 hours of training. The description of the training is as follows:
During the twenty hours of training
the volunteers are required to attend
they will learn the basic fundamentals
of the NYS criminal justice system;
which will include how laws are
created and enforced from arrest
through sentencing. Victim advocacy
and representation skills will be presented
as will basic courtroom technique,
etiquette and procedures. The
main component of the training will
be hands on practice including interviews,
preparing and presenting
opening and closing statements, and
developing lines of questioning for
witnesses. Speakers will include
town justices, local attorneys and
professors, local law enforcement,
and crime victim advocates.
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Re: DISCUSSION 3: Participant's Choice
August 9, 2007 - 03:25 AM
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dmazzone wrote:
In regards to training, as you mentioned, ours requires 6 different classes, resulting in 20 hours of training. The description of the training is as follows:
During the twenty hours of training
the volunteers are required to attend
they will learn the basic fundamentals
of the NYS criminal justice system;
which will include how laws are
created and enforced from arrest
through sentencing. Victim advocacy
and representation skills will be presented
as will basic courtroom technique,
etiquette and procedures. The
main component of the training will
be hands on practice including interviews,
preparing and presenting
opening and closing statements, and
developing lines of questioning for
witnesses. Speakers will include
town justices, local attorneys and
professors, local law enforcement,
and crime victim advocates.
Wow, that's really thorough training! We typically have trainings once every few months where we cover topics such as closing arguments, speaking, and learn different techniques. To actually become an attorney, we usually attend these trainings and sit as co-counsel and/or court clerk until we are ready to do cases on our own. Then, we become lead attorneys and will help to train the new attorneys coming in.
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Re: DISCUSSION 3: Participant's Choice
August 9, 2007 - 03:36 AM
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Well, I would like to hear about how different courts work. I'm just now beginning to realize how different they can be.
So, what does a typical court day consist of for your court? How often is it held? That sort of thing...
At the KHW teen court, we take cases of teens who have plead guilty to a misdemeanor crime, and asess punisment to consist of community service, classes, or written apologies/papers. There are three different avenues through which this can happen.
1. Courtroom Case- The attorneys (that's what I am) recieve a docket each week and are assigned any where from 2-6 cases. On the court date, we question the defendants during a period of about an hour before the proceedings begin. Then, we try the case out in the courtroom in front of an adult judge, and a teen jury.
2. Plea bargains- There are many cases that we do not try, in these attorneys come to anagreement between the defense and prosecution on the appropriate number of hours and jury terms for the crime. We then give the defendant the choice of taking the punishment or going to trial.
3. Master Jury- Here, the defendant is questioned directly by the jury members, while guided by an adult volunteer. The jury then decides upon the appropriate punishment.
Oh, and we hold our court 3 times a month.
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Sam Holley-Kline
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Re: DISCUSSION 3: Participant's Choice
August 10, 2007 - 05:32 AM
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"So, what does a typical court day consist of for your court? How often is it held? That sort of thing..."
Sorry, couldn't fit the whole quote.
In Anchorage Youth Court, cases are held every week (typically twice a week) in the afternoon. Every defendant gets a sentence that incudes community work service (CWS) based on the class of crime and aggravating and mitigating factors. If there's a way to post documents on this site, I can scan and post our sentencing guidelines, which explain the whole process pretty well. An essay of 500-1500 words is also assigned, as well as a class usually run by the Volunteers of America.
Sentencing hearings usually take about 45 minutes. We mainly do sentencing hearings, but sometimes we do trainings and tours.
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Re: DISCUSSION 3: Participant's Choice
August 11, 2007 - 01:14 PM
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At our school we only have training once a year for 4 hours. Our club is really small, and schools from all over the district come to the court building. You only have to do the training if you want to be something besides a jury member. A typical court day is we go to sign in, pick our position, if your a lawyer you prepare your case, and if a defense attorney you talk to the individual. We normally have a few cases a day. Our judge is an actual judge, not a teenager.
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