Court Visit Essay

Court Visit Assignment Court visit is a very special experiment for me. Not only this is my first time visit court in the United States, but also there are a lot of difference between my home country and here. We met some problems when we discuss, because the schedule on the website is not clear at all and the court did not answer our phone call. However, my friends and I decided to select a case randomly. After deciding the date and the case with Kane Chia and Daniel Chang, then we decided to go to the courthouse and finish this assignment together on October 30.
We arrived Seattle’s King County District Courthouse at about 9:50, then we went to the first courthouse as soon as possible. The first trial that we visited is civil case which

Firstly, the judge and the court stuffs in this case was nice and friendly. Because after the trial, the judge asked us if we had any question about this case or not. He not only told the summary of entire case to us, but also helped us to solve our personal questions. We also told the court stuffs that we would visit criminal case later, then they gave us some “interesting” cases for us to attend. Secondly, because this is my first time attended to the court, I observed that the courthouse is very different from Taiwan’s courthouse. Not only because there were jury’s seats in American courthouse, but also there is only one judge in this courthouse. I have visited Taiwan’s courthouse twice, and there were three courts and a lot of court stuffs in Taiwan’s

Comparing to the civil courthouse, there were more people in this criminal courthouse. There are a judge, four court stuffs, about 16 juries, two police officers, defendant, his lawyer, King County Medical Officer and about 10 audiences in this case. The atmosphere in this courthouse was more serious than the previous civil courthouse. The name of this case is Regency Centers, L.P. v. Hodges (Chamber – Ruling), the case number is 14-1-03783-6, the judge of this trial is Judie Spector, and the defendant is Richard Parenteau. This is a murder case happened in 2014. In this trial, the defendant’s lawyer kept asking King County Medical officers details about this case. It was not the first trial, so we did not understand the story about this case. However, we searched this case’s story on the Internet when we went back home.
The summary of this case is a 45-year-old man, Richard Parenteau, who used axe to murder his mother and stepfather in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood. In this criminal trial, I could feel the atmosphere is very nervous. Not only because the lawyer kept asking serious questions, but also we saw the victim’s pictures on the