Criminal
Feb. 7, 2007
Seeing Is Believing: DA Builds Full-Size Jail Cell in Court
LOS ANGELES - Though trial may be theater, few attorneys give thought to a compelling set design. But when a judge nixed Deputy District Attorney Lesley Klein's request to have jurors visit the scene of a murder in Men's Central Jail, citing safety concerns, she called in a local set crew and had her own wooden jail cell constructed in the courtroom.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Though trial may be theater, few attorneys give thought to a compelling set design.
But when a judge nixed Deputy District Attorney Lesley Klein's request to have jurors visit the scene of a murder in Men's Central Jail, citing safety concerns, she called in a local set crew and had her own wooden jail cell constructed in the courtr...
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