Criminal
Sep. 3, 2020
Spread-out jurors, faulty audio feed, shuffling seat assignments in LA’s 1st trial since March
For the most part, the press and public were relegated to listening to an audio version of the trial in a courtroom several floors away in the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, which led to gate hinge squeaks, rustling paper and surreal feedback drowning out much of the questions and answers.
LOS ANGELES -- At the opening of the first jury trial in Los Angeles County in nearly six months, the victim was asked to move around the room with his pants leg hiked up, showing his scars from an alleged hit-and-run to the jurors, who were spread throughout the gallery and jury box.
With jurors craning their necks trying to see while maintaining a distance of 6 feet from each other on Tuesday, the judge relaxed his virus mitigati...
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