So my internship came to an end last Thursday and let me tell you it was a bittersweet day. As much as I love that the end of my internship means school is starting back up (wanting to see my friends, I don't know how much I really want to start up classes again), I will miss my advisors since they were pretty cool.
Ok so let's overview. I was able to complete everything I wanted to learn. The last day I made a few phone calls to victims. Thankfully most of them I reached their voicemails but there was one where I had to talk to one of the victims. Our conversations in a nutshell was telling her what we could offer her and seeing if she needed any help. She said she didn't need any but I reassured that if she wanted to still make a claim she up until a year to do it. That is how most of the phone calls will go at least when I was in the office. I remembered a lot of police codes for violent crimes that I probably won't ever forget they are so engrained into my head.
What did I wish I knew?
Honestly, I think I know everything I wanted to. I do wish that I was able to go to a preliminary hearing and see how those went so I guess that's what I wish I knew; the procedure of a preliminary hearing. Unfortunately, I was never around for one and the ones that I were I wasn't allowed to go to.
To wrap this up, I really enjoyed this internship overall. As much fun as I had and as interesting as I found it, I realized that I don't want to go into that field of law. I couldn't handle some of the cases that I would have to approve. Some of them are extremely heartbreaking and you have to keep emotions out of it and I don't think I could be able to keep those two apart. So with that I put my internship to a close.
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