Courts
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The court I chose to visit was New York County Criminal
Court, located on Centre street. I sat in on arraignments,
which were being handled as if they were on a converor belt.
This process is the first opportunity a defendant has to
encounter a judge after being arrested. Most of the
individuals ha ....
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.... that after I had been there about an hour there
were no cases left. Every one in the court took a seat and
just carried on as the judge read his newspaper. I never
imagined that criminal court would come to a stand still,
where the judge would be reading a newspaper. I guess this
is yet another piece of evidence that crime has in fact
fallen in our city. I found the thing going on when I
entered the court room across the hall and found the judge
to be sitting and drinking his coffee. A ....
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