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17th Circuit’s Mock Jury Trial Zoom Image Featured in Washington Post Article
The Washington Post recently published an article about innovative methods to proceed with jury trials amid the current pandemic. Click here to read the article.
Florida Supreme Court Administrative Order – Extension of Time Periods for Broward County in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit
CDC Guidance for Returning to Work after Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Infection
Judge Garcia-Wood Chosen as Judge of the Month by the Broward County Hispanic Bar Association
Judge Marina Garcia-Wood was honored as Judge of the Month for July by the Broward County Hispanic Bar Association. Her introduction and biography can be found here: https://browardhispanicbar.com/2020/07/01/judge-of-the-month-the-honorable-marina-garcia-wood/
Watch the full interview below.
The 17th Judicial Circuit Announces Creation of Virtual Courtrooms via Zoom
Although it is unknown when face to face courtroom activity will resume in the Seventeenth Circuit, we will be prepared with new virtual courtrooms which allow litigants, attorneys, and witnesses to appear via Zoom from a remote setting or in-person inside the courtroom. The circuit’s IT and Audio/Video departments have been hard at work developing a process to interface Zoom into technology that already exists in the courtrooms. When put to use, these virtual courtrooms will offer many advantages to seamlessly maintaining court dockets.
