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[Music] welcome to introducing the federal courts the federal judicial centers orientation series for court employees this is programmed two of the series how criminal cases moved through the district courts it's designed to help you become familiar with basic procedures involved in processing criminal cases in the federal district courts this program has four parts part one initial stages part two pretrial proceedings part three trials and guilty pleas and part four sentencing and post judgment proceedings part one initial stages [Music] hello I'm Bruce Clark welcome to your new job and to the federal courts I'm standing here in the clerk's office for our district court the clerk's office plays a vital role in the processing of criminal cases through the federal courts generally speaking the clerk's office assists the court in seeing to it that criminal cases proceed through the federal system in a timely and orderly fashion we also assist the parties in following the district courts administrative and procedural rules and see to it that information about specific criminal cases is made available to those who need it these responsibilities are quite important in a system as busy as the federal court system during the past few years for example over forty thousand criminal cases per year have been processed through our federal courts in addition the clerk's office itself works within a much wider and very complex adversary system for the resolution of criminal cases in order to perform your job in the clerk's office effectively you'll have to become familiar with how that adversary system works and with terms commonly used by the people who work in it let me show you what I mean hello Anne hi jack how's everything in the public defender's office just fine I want to introduce you to a new attorney in our office this is Aleta Herrera Aleta this is an Callas pleased to meet you I'm very glad to meet you too I wanted to introduce a leader to you and also have her see how the clerk's office is set up so I was wondering if I could take a look at the file of one of my cases United States versus Clark all right what's the case number Wow let's see was filed this year 12 28 it should be a pretty thick file I filed two suppression motions in the case has your client been indicted by the grand jury he sure has what judge has been assigned to the case for trial judge Scott and has a trial date been set yet trial is set for November 15th Wow that's coming up pretty soon well under the Speedy Trial Act yeah here it is United States versus Clark thank you let's see mr. Lee's client was detained pretrial under the bail Reform Act which makes the case a priority case for trial under the Speedy Trial Act I told you and knows what she's talking about she does I see you...