Court Observations In Criminal Observation Essay

Kara Denise Valleser-Dupio Professor: Pros. Charina Cortes-Garces
Criminal Procedure September 15, 2015

Topic: Court Observations in Criminal Procedure

Movies have a great impact in influencing how people perceive things. Often times we are painted pictures that hardly ever depict reality. I have always been a fan of the television series called The Practice. I liked it so much that I bought a collection of compact discs for every series that I could get my hands on. The series has painted this vision in my head that once a court is in session, arguments from both sides of the law would fly like daggers as if to pierce each side into submitting defeat. I had this image that lawyers were relentless and unforgiving in arguing against opposing

The sala of Judge Cresencio Tan was kind enough to allow us to observe cases where evidences were presented in the form of witnesses and documents. The first case was simple enough as it was for the initial reception of the prosecution’s evidence. In this proceeding, the prosecutor merely requested for the markings of the evidences she presented in court and the counsel for the accused was asked if he admits it or not. I was waiting for some evidence that would not be admitted by the counsel for the accused in order to see what would happen next, however, all evidences were admitted. With that, that particular session ended. The second case called was for the continuation of reception of prosecution’s evidence. In this case, a witness was presented and the counsel for the accused addressed the witness. I observed that his line of questioning was set on establishing doubt in relation to his personal knowledge of the crime and the drugs in question. The counsel for the accused was able to establish that since the witness himself admitted that he was not really there during the arrest. This case illustrated to me the importance of the element of personal knowledge of a a crime in the determination of a person’s