For the next several weeks I am going to be immersed in work. Even the breaks and lunch hour I spent working on posts for this blog and researching stories will be severely limited. My intention is to do a wrap up every afternoon of what happened during my day.
I am a Superior Court Clerk who is just starting to clerk a medical malpractice trial. The clerk isn’t the one with the funny machine. We take minutes, number and keep track of exhibits and all documents filed during the course of the trial.
Yesterday the Judge and all the attorneys, six of them, took care of preliminary matters. Today is picking the jury. Seventy people have been called in to be questioned by the judge and attorneys to see if they are prejudice in any way. Fifteen people will be picked to determine fault and monetary damages.
The plaintiffs, the damaged party, have two attorneys and they are suing the hospital and two of the doctors. From what I understand complications from surgery have left a woman unable to walk or do anything for herself.
We are just about ready for the Judge to come out…..
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