Givanti's Senior Project: Blog 14: Independent Component 1

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LITERAL
(a) Write: “I, Givanti Chatapal, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours of work.”
(b) California Penal Code 2014 With Selected Provisions from Other Codes and Rules of Court: Desktop Edition.. California: West , 2013. Print.
(c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours. See Senior Project Hours (right column).

(d)I continued my mentorship at the West Covina Public Defenders Office doing exactly the same things as I had been doing throughout the summer and this year. Which was shadowing the lawyers through client meetings and arraignments, and also helping out in the office mostly doing clerical work.

INTERPRETIVE

The reason I chose to continue doing this is that with more experience in the office and shadowing I get a feel of what it would be like doing this as a career and also the second hand work that is provided for the lawyers to be able to do their jobs. Doing more mentorship is valuable to me because being there is where I get the most information about how to go about doing the research that I read in real life. Also, a lot of my research are about laws and how to go about processes in the courtroom and through mentorship I can see how to do those things successfully and the different ways each of the lawyers in the office proceed to do them.

APPLIED

This component helped me grasp the concept of how to successfully run a client meeting and understand more about arraignments. More experience with the client meetings was probably the most beneficial because that is what the Public Defenders spend most of their time doing and it helped me understand my answer 1 more because you have to talk to the client before you can accept a Plea Bargain, which is my answer 1. More specifically, I got to see situations where clients denied the plea bargain and moved on to trial. In seeing this, I knew that my next focal point of research would be on how to successfully get the best decision out of a trial for the client.