How will the nation's largest court system function during coronavirus pandemic?
When he strode to the bench inside the Compton courthouse Friday morning, Superior Court Judge Michael J. Shultz was wearing two items more necessary than his pleated black robe: a pair of latex gloves and a face mask.
In Los Angeles County, home to the nation’s busiest court system, judges returned to the bench FridayBut with trials frozen for at least a month and law enforcement leaders trying to reduce the size of the prison population for fear of sparking a viral outbreak in the jails, the continuing public health crisis threatened to cause a lengthy case backlog and force police and prosecutors to drastically scale back enforcement for the time being.
“Maybe you haven’t heard of it,” Sandoval told the defendant of the coronavirus pandemic. “You will hear a good deal about it when you are out.” Concern about the virus and its impact on court functions seemed to explode in recent days, as the number of infected persons in the state climbed toward 1,000.
A spokesman for the U.S. Marshal’s Service, which controls the federal lockup, did not provide additional information.
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