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Jury pools will be much smaller than in the past to accommodate 6-foot social distancing requirements. While the jury assembly building once accommodated 135 people sitting shoulder to shoulder, it now can hold approximately 15 to ensure safe separation. Instead of summoning 100 to 150 people per panel, plans call for each group to have 50 potential jurors.
For now, they will follow the 6-foot social distancing rule although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has suggested that schools could employ physical separation of 3 feet.
The jury assembly building will be linked by video conference to the courtroom so that potential jurors can at least listen to the questioning process in hopes of speeding along the process once they enter the courtroom. With small groups in the courtroom for voir dire, court officials expect that will lengthen the jury selection process significantly.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Santa Barbara County Sheriff s deputies responded to more crime across Santa Barbara County in 2020 than in 2019.
A new report from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office showed that 444 more crimes were committed across the county last year than in the previous year. That totals to 2,914 crimes committed in 2020 compared to the 2,470 in 2019.
There were 2,828.8 crimes committed in Santa Barbara County over a 10-year average. And 2020 averaged just less than 0.25 crimes per day.
SBSO said that thefts in the county hit a five-year high with 2,010 total in 2020. 2016 holds the previous high at 1,955 thefts. And motor vehicle thefts also hit a five-year high of 156. 2018 was the previous high at 103.
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