Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Declining decorum

Judges strive to maintain order in the courtroom in the age of Zoom

Russell Wonsey sat in his living room the Monday before Thanksgiving, from all visible indications feeling comfortable in his skin.

The clock was approaching 9:30 a.m. and the Greenville man, naked from the waist up, stretched out his arms. Then he leaned back in his reclining armchair and took several deep inhales from his cigarette, blowing the smoke up into the air where it hung in a lazy fog above him.

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