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Stepfanie T. Malone
January 18, 2014
Courtroom Players
The courtroom work group are divided into two categories which consist of the professional and the outsiders. The courtroom group consist of the judge, the prosecuting attorney, the public defenders, the defense attorney, and the others who work in the court system that earns money including the two bailiffs, the court clerk and the court reporter.
On a daily basis the courtroom group is there to bring the procedure to a successful close. The courtroom group is there to process the cases rather than dispensing justice. The role of the prosecutor is to conduct an attorney whose official duty is to conduct criminal proceedings.
On behalf of the state or the people against those accused of having committed criminal offenses (Schmalleger, 2011).
The prosecuting attorney decides which case to pursue by examining the strength of the incriminating evidence. I think that if the criteria for taking a case was more stringent then there would be a lot of people going to jail because the evidence points to the fact that the crime has happened, but sometimes because the way that it would seem like the evidence fits the crime could be that the crime could have actually happened, but because the plaintiff played a part in the crime, but change the whole story to make it fit with the evidence.
On the other hand, if the criteria was less than a criminal can go free when they committed the crime. I would not recommend that that courtroom group change, I think that everything that the courts have in place should stay in place.