Editing Blog/2025-05-17/Witness For The Prosecution (section)

== The Courthouse ==

The 850 Bryant Street courthouse is actually a short 11 minutes from where I live so it was a quick walk. I got there at 0859 for my 0900 time, but they hadn't yet sent the jury in or set anything up. By the time I was sent in to the courtroom it was almost 1000 and I was finished by 1130 or so that day. The building itself looks like a grand old government building and it has the usual security gates you have to pass through to make it in. There were elevators up but I waited for about half a minute before I took the stairs. The staff themselves seemed to prefer them, no doubt because of how slow the elevators are.

While the main floor to the various courtrooms is actually like any old government office building, the actual courtroom has the classic brown wood panels, the judge in the middle with the witness stand to his right, the stenographer in front of the witness, and the jury to the right of the witness.