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Sunday, October 28, 2007
Ind. Courts - Evansville federal courthouse installs monitors in jury box
Kat Braser of the Evansville Courier & Press reports today:
Eight monitors installed this month in the jury box of the federal courthouse in Evansville have arrived in good time.The screens, which will be used to display evidence and documents to jurors in upcoming federal trials, should save court officials from making stacks of photocopies during what federal court staff anticipate to be a busy start to 2008.
Dana Schuler, courtroom deputy, said the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana typically sees seven or eight trials per year, but 2008 may see more activity than usual. Schuler said trials are already scheduled to take place there in January, February and March of next year. * * *
Schuler said previously attorneys relied on a large, bulky single monitor. He added the layout of the jury box made it difficult for jurors to see the content displayed on the monitor in detail.
"Before we used one huge monitor to show some of these documents to jurors, or else they had stacks and stacks of papers to shuffle through," Schuler said. "These will make things easier."
The new monitors — each about the size of a laptop computer screen — are affixed in the jury box between seats, so that each juror is within arm's length of one. * * *
Schuler said the screens were previously installed in a federal courtroom in Indianapolis, but the recent installation here made Evansville the only federal courthouse in the Southern District of Indiana to receive the new monitors. [ILB - that is somewhat confusing.]
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 28, 2007 05:30 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts