State V. Horne Case Study

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The trial I attended was the State v. Horne trial on October 29th, 2015, at the Monmouth County Courthouse in front of Judge Ronald Lee Reisner. The State v. Horne case was about two brothers, Duane and Maurice Horne, who allegedly robbed a gas station attendant. The part of the trial I was able to witness was the defense 's cross examination of a witness. The witness on the stand was a police officer of the Howell Township Police Department. He was the second officer on the scene after the incident, and the officer in charge of writing up all of the paper work, including the police report, taking the witness statement, and the search warrant affidavit. Maurice A. Horne, 23, charged with aggravated assault with a firearm, robbery, possession …show more content…

During the defense 's cross examination, When the officer was questioned about his police report and the witness report it was determined that they were not exactly the same there were no descriptions included in the victim statement according to the witness when a store in his statement this all took place without being assaulted and or harmed of Defense also brought up that the police report has been written about 34 hours after the incident took place and there weren 't any documents and notes filed with said police report the defense was quite adamant about the fact that any notes taken during police questioning has to be induced included with the police report because there were no documented notes and because the police report and victim statement did not match it almost discredited the police report filed by this officer putting his integrity on the line. Upon further questioning the officer was not able to recall whether or not he had been sworn in before writing up the police report. He had first stated that he hadn 't been sworn in and then quickly changed his answer to not being able to recall. He also mentioned he wasn 't able to recall signing the affidavit in front of Judge Vernoia. Though all signatures on said affidavit were dated, this officers was

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