3/12/2012, The First Day

Wahoo!!  The first day is here and gone, and it was great!  Today for me was a sort of orientation style day, and was moderately uneventful.  To start off with I am no longer working with Aaryn Richardson because he has taken a job offer in Denver, so congrats to you Aaryn.  I am now Working with Christian Champagne who is the assistant District Attorney and takes felonies.  I met all those who work there including the District Attorney.  One of the most important people in the office is those organizing the files during the discovery phase.  They seem to be the bread and butter of the office, and get every case in order so the attorneys can have everything organized and ready for there trial.  Discovery I leaned is a word used when a case is being collected and evidence is being added and organizes into files.  Christian guided me through what exactly an attorney does, as well as drop a ton of information on me within the first 3 hours.  That information included a lot of terminologies such as what exactly a bond was and how someone can bond out of jail.  I was educated on the inner workings of a case and how that all works, as well as how cases were organized.  The case number is always associated with a degree of crime.  There is a date and a degree of crime, a CR is a felony, M is a misdemeanor, T is traffic.  An example would be 892012CR20098, 2012 being the year, CR being a felony, and the rest is just jibberish and is ignored.  Well not ignored totally but just during filing, and discovery.  Then the file is even organized further in colors, misdemeanors and petty offences in orange and green, felonies in grey, and domestic violence in red.  After lunch me and Christian took a stroll up to the courthouse and sit in on a few court cases which was pretty interesting.  I then read a case file and then Christian and I further discussed my schedule.  It was a great first day and I am stoked for tomorrow.