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Brian Tran Dr. U. Lynn J whizzs GOVT 2302 S11 November 8, 2012 Court Observation Paper For my court observation, I was able to sit in a Texas State District Court. The essay of the court I observed was Honorable Judge Etta J. Mullin. Everything was fine much what I expected to see. I wasnt expecting anything outrageous to happen worry on the television. I was expecting everything to be very professional and very boring, standardised watching the C-SPAN channel. The walls were a dull brown color and most of the furniture was wooden.The Judge sat on a little stand and side by side(p) to the stand was a seat where people would go to present shew or tell stories under oath. On the Judges castigate side, there were two rows of seats that the Jury would sit in. There were police force officer standing in the room and people sitting blue in the audience like me. I couldnt tell if they were h unityst spectators in the audience, or family/friends of the people on trial. When I fir st entered the courtroom, I walked in the middle of a court slip of paper. Most of the court cases were pretty straight forward. People pleaded guilty and the Judge moved on to the next case.The most interesting case was an assault because it was assault. The suspect of this case as well pleaded guilty, but afterwards the Judge talked with the lawyer to discuss what sort of penalisation or jail time he should receive. Because there were three counts of assault, the defendant was fined $40,000 and 3 years of community service. I thought it seemed fairly fair since the one of the victims suffered injuries such as skull fractures. I, however dont rally that I am experienced enough to know what is considered a dangerous punishment for a crime. Other cases were simple things, like people world caught with possession of marijuana.The penalty for that is a small fine. That reminded me of a time when a guy I k natural was caught in possession of marijuana on his was to Waco. He was k ept in a holding cell and I had to baffle to Waxahachie to help my friend pay for his bail. Personally, I have never through any illegal substances, and I believe that it is wrong even when conscientious objector and Washington had recently made it legal in those states. The experience was new and fresh, but I dont think Id ever go back and watch a court case for fun. I can see how the trial could be interesting, but I was fairly bored by the end of my two hours.It wasnt as gripping as an episode of Law and Order. A more memorable event that happened while I was at the court house was that one of the people that worked the (in a family court setting) told me a story about this one family. There were 2 siblings, a brother and a sister, and they were trying to touch on away with taking their Grandmothers social security check. To do this, the siblings had morphine patches that they would stick on to her spine to make her appear senile. still one day the Grandmothers friend came ov er and took her to conglomerate up with the people that worked in the building and everything was good.