Black law student says court deputy mistook her for a defendant - Yahoo News
“I have never been more embarrassed in my entire life. I felt like crying in that moment,” said Brooklyn Crockton.
A law student at Roger Williams University says she forgives the courtroom sheriff who she said delayed her from entering a courtroom with other attorneys because he thought she was a defendant.
As reported by WPRI, Brooklyn Crockton says a white sheriff blocked her from entering a courtroom at Garrahy Judicial Complex in Providence, Rhode Island, going so far as to pull her out of line to inquire about the absence of her name on the docket for defendants, she said in a TikTok video about the experience.
“He asked if I was the defendant,” Crockton recalled. “It kind of threw me off balance. I was aware that situations like this had occurred with other law students, but I just couldn’t believe in that moment that it was happening to me,” she told WPRI.
Crockton said the sheriff apologized after she explained that she was representing a client as part of the university criminal defense clinic. According to the university’s website, the clinic “offers law students an extraordinary opportunity to experience the actual practice of law, representing real defendants in pending criminal cases under the direct supervision of a full-time member of the School of Law’s tenured faculty.”
Law students such as Crockton “personally handle all stages of criminal litigation in the Criminal Defense Clinic, beginning with interviewing the client and including investigating the case, counseling the client, negotiating with the prosecution, and ultimately, if the case proceeds that far, trying the case,” the site continues.
Crockton recounted her experience in a viral TikTok video. “I have never been more embarrassed in my entire life. I felt like crying in that moment,” Crockton said in the video. She noted that she was dressed appropriately for the hearing.
source: https://news.yahoo.com/black-law-student-says-court-182300436.html
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