Fried Day

Nature Reclaiming Garage, or
Garage Framing Nature?

Bee Flower

It's Called "Dog Vomit Fungus"

I Need To Organize My
Collection Of Little Free Libraries

Patriot Chicken With Mask

West Seattle SETI

Aroung 11 I joined in the Low Bono Section Roundtable, and learned a bunch of things! I shared one virtual tip from TM (eyes on camera, please, because otherwise we look distracted) 4freeCLE, which was popular. We discussed issues with virtual trial practice. One attorney just punted and got a continuance, which the judge was fine with. One had done both a phone hearing and a zoom hearing, and clearly preferred the zoom hearings for the nonverbal stuff. Neither is preferred to live trials though.
THEN someone from Thurston Cty (I think...) chimed in about their Zoom rules, which she disfavors. Mandating that all witnesses get copies of all evidence is a big problem since much of that is private and of no interest to some witnesses, e.g. a witness present merely to authenticate a document about a car and no need to see medical reports. The attorney asked the judge to scrap this and it was ok.
There is a big potential problem with virtual witness coaching; in DV cases who knows what's going on with the witness as she talks?
Maybe the biggest concern is that when a virtual trial is "open" the witnesses can be seen and recorded by anyone on the planet. The court apparently requires viewers to promise not to record which is completely ineffectual. If someone in a foreign country makes a recording, what is the court going to do?
 Toward evening I took another walk, either to do a little shopping or to get more steps in. I had a long chat with Mary O'Brien, who told me Ginny came by her house often to monitor the bird feeder and got stuck under the house. Mary's in her late 70's and seriously quaranting, but when her daughter visiting, she could see Ginny mewing. Mary saw her at the basement opening which was heavily screened and couldn't be opened, but fortunately she asked Maureen Seeley who got a tool to open things up.

Stunning White Poppies

Smiley Face Poppy