COVID froze the machinery of justice - now, in-person jury trials could resume in June
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State District Judge Ron Rangel is optimistic that in-person jury trials could begin by June. Bexar County has not had one in more than a year.Billy Calzada /Staff photographer
After a year’s unprecedented freezing up of most of the machinery of public justice, Bexar County might see in-person jury trials again as early as June, thanks to local vaccination numbers rising and infections subsiding.
It will still be “a very slow ramp-up,” to ensure the health and safety of courtroom participants and visitors entering the judicial complex, said state District Judge Ron Rangel, the administrative judge for the county’s civil and felony courts.