Opening Statement Doc

hypothesis story Frank Cearnal Jr CRJ 100 November 11, 2012 John Taulane Opening Statement In todays court system its non what you know its what you can prove, this disk operating systemment has assisted me with the choice of discussing the Opening Statement of a Trial. Open educations can be catastrophic in any trial bear upon, I would like to think of open up assertions as the seed that initiates doubt in the minds of the jury. Opening Statements are defined as the information presented to the jury by both the pursuance and the defense lawyer totally to advise the jury of what individually side intends to prove and how they will provide that information.Opening educations are show or finding of fact, this process allows the prosecution to state what they are going to prove and how their proof relates to the case. For example the prosecutions opening statement would be my intentions here today is to prove that the stand criminate did in detail commit the nature of the se crimes with the thought of consequence, lack of neither awe nor consideration for others. Today intend to prove that the nature of the crimes were in fact committed by the suspect at hand and at the meter of the crime they were in their right frame of mind and should be rear guilty of all crimes committed.This is also an excellent time for the prosecution to indirectly character assassinate without it directly being pointed at the defendant. I sense that the prosecution has the upper hand in any opening statement because they have all the words, and knowledge of putting those stereo-types and judgments into the jurys manoeuver what sticks out the most is the defendant is already presumed guilty by the commonplace because they even committed a crime. The law plainly states that a someone is innocent until found guilty, its sad that society already has their verdict based on being a criminal period.In an opening statement the defense attorneys job would be to defend their i nvitee to the best of their ability, their main goal is to dismiss any statement that the prosecution has presented to prove their certify. An example of a defense attorney would be solely to discredit the prosecutions opening statement. The defense attorney would state that there leaf node didnt in fact commit the crime that they have been accused of, that their client is innocent until the prosecution can prove otherwise.Also during the defense opening statement they would high lite the excellent qualities of the defendant stating their qualities in the community, education, usance status. Most importantly they would state how they prosecution has no real evidence on the defendant and how they will dismiss the prosecutions accusations. The opening statements are the pick work for presenting the evidence in a trial this gives the jury the opportunity to process both sides of the opening statement in conjunction with the evidence that will be presented to be able to provide a v erdict of guilty or not guilty.It amazes me how the trial process starts with the first initial process of the trial initiation and proceeds to the end result or a verdict, this process reminds me of so many anonymous 12 bar program. You can complete one process before the other, the first process has to be initiated and then move to the next the processes all follow each other. They were formulated one before the other to make the process as correct and successful as possible. REFERENCS (schmalleger, 11th edition 21st coke criminal justice today, pages, 350-356)