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Court Experience

I went to the court session on Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 and stayed until around 4:35. They did not start court though until a little after 2.
Before court started everyone was talking to each other and having a good time.
There was only one other person in the courtroom besides myself watching the trial and that person was also from this class.
When court resumed the lawyers were trying to agree to certain things concerning the trial before the jury came back in. Since I had not seen the beginning of this trial, I had no idea who was suing whom or what was going on.
Finally after they had got those things ironed out and a map set up, the jury was finally called back into the courtroom for closing arguments.
To give the basics that I picked up from closing arguments was that Guge who owns the Exxon on 105 extension was wanting more money from the state for some property that they were confiscating for construction. The state was offering around $60,000 and he wants $300,000. The lawyer for Guge went first.
He went on forever it seemed like. It was over an hour that he went on talking.
Some of the jurors were falling asleep as well as the judge while he was speaking. It seems that he could have been more concise with his argument.
Pretty bad when even the judge nods off. The judge even got up and left during part of the closing arguments.
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