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Order in His Court - orlandomagazine
by mom_in_il Sat Apr 02, 2011 4:13 pm
Order in His Court
Next month’s Casey Anthony trial may be the most sensational murder case since O.J., but don’t expect any courtroom showboating. With Judge Belvin Perry Jr. presiding, justice isserious business.
By Brad Kuhn
Excerpt:
Compared with the forbidding efficiency of the public waiting area on the 20th floor of the Orange County Courthouse, the inner sanctum of the judges’ chambers is as cozy as the Gryffindor common room—a chamber of secrets where the men and women who hold up the scales of justice come to hang up their robes and be alone with their thoughts behind a locked door.
This smiling man, with his steaming cup of coffee—cream and sugar—and morning paper, could just as well be wearing pajamas and slippers as the tailored gray barrister pinstripe, cut long and cool, in a fashion favored by jazz musicians. He looks that comfortable. You get the sense that you are walking into his house.
With good reason. Except for a two-year hiatus, Belvin Perry Jr. has been chief judge of the 9th Judicial Circuit since 1995. He oversaw the construction of this building, and particularly Courtroom 23 (officially the Roger A. Barker Courtroom)—a high-tech digital cathedral of justice where Perry will preside over the first-degree murder trial of 25-year-old Casey Anthony, an impending courtroom miniseries that has been nearly three years in the making and is expected to run at least six weeks. Beginning May 9, when jury selection begins in a county other than Orange, Perry will operate under a microscope that will enlarge exponentially his role in a trial certain to be followed by millions. More than 200 media outlets are expected in Orlando to cover the Anthony trial once proceedings move here, possibly by May 16. A vacant lot across from the courthouse will be transformed into a media city, populated by satellite antennas and picture-perfect hair. Credentials requests alone have already necessitated the creation of a remote viewing area in the downtown courthouse, with a live feed supplied by truTV.
READ MORE: http://www.orlandomagazine.com/Orlando-Magazine/April-2011/Order-in-His-Court/
Next month’s Casey Anthony trial may be the most sensational murder case since O.J., but don’t expect any courtroom showboating. With Judge Belvin Perry Jr. presiding, justice isserious business.
By Brad Kuhn
Excerpt:
Compared with the forbidding efficiency of the public waiting area on the 20th floor of the Orange County Courthouse, the inner sanctum of the judges’ chambers is as cozy as the Gryffindor common room—a chamber of secrets where the men and women who hold up the scales of justice come to hang up their robes and be alone with their thoughts behind a locked door.
This smiling man, with his steaming cup of coffee—cream and sugar—and morning paper, could just as well be wearing pajamas and slippers as the tailored gray barrister pinstripe, cut long and cool, in a fashion favored by jazz musicians. He looks that comfortable. You get the sense that you are walking into his house.
With good reason. Except for a two-year hiatus, Belvin Perry Jr. has been chief judge of the 9th Judicial Circuit since 1995. He oversaw the construction of this building, and particularly Courtroom 23 (officially the Roger A. Barker Courtroom)—a high-tech digital cathedral of justice where Perry will preside over the first-degree murder trial of 25-year-old Casey Anthony, an impending courtroom miniseries that has been nearly three years in the making and is expected to run at least six weeks. Beginning May 9, when jury selection begins in a county other than Orange, Perry will operate under a microscope that will enlarge exponentially his role in a trial certain to be followed by millions. More than 200 media outlets are expected in Orlando to cover the Anthony trial once proceedings move here, possibly by May 16. A vacant lot across from the courthouse will be transformed into a media city, populated by satellite antennas and picture-perfect hair. Credentials requests alone have already necessitated the creation of a remote viewing area in the downtown courthouse, with a live feed supplied by truTV.
READ MORE: http://www.orlandomagazine.com/Orlando-Magazine/April-2011/Order-in-His-Court/
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