Reaction Paper for Court Experience
I visited the District Court arraignment section (D11) in Central Islip. This was my first time in a courtroom, so I did not know what to expect. When I first sat down the judge was not present, and I was not paying special attention until I noticed the whole court room standing in his presence and so I hurriedly buckled my self off the bench so as not to be kicked out. I knew that judges receive a higher level of respect but the seriousness of it was not apparent to me until then. Furthermore, whenever I watch television shows with a court scene they always address the judge as "Your Honor", and I thought that they kept repeating that before or after everything said to the judge, just to establish the idea to the audience that judges are superior to the common folk and thus they deserve a title for entertainment purposes to strengthen the film. However I did not realize that in reality, the Hollywood depiction of judges is ideally what is......
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