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Benjamin Allen today during Jury selection at the Flagler County courthouse. (© FlaglerLive) When the jury was seated after day of selection in Benjamin Allen’s murder trial this afternoon, Circuit Judge Terence Perkins asked Allen, 18: “Are you satisfied with our jury?” “Yeah, I’m satisfied,” Allen said, the only words he’d spoken out loud in the seven hours that had preceded the selection. But Allen, in civilian clothes for the first time since his arrest in July 2019, didn’t tell the judge what he told one of his two attorneys. “He did mention to me: there’s no Blacks ...

A jury room at the Flagler County courthouse. (© FlaglerLive) In person-trials will resume on Monday in Flagler County and the rest of the Seventh Judicial Circuit (including St. Johns, Volusia and Putnam) starting Monday, Chief Judge Raul Zambrano announced. Most court functions have been continuing through hybrid arrangements, with judges in their courtrooms and defendants and lawyers appearing either in person or from remote locations. But with a few exceptions last fall, jury trials had been suspended in mid-March and again since late December as coronavirus case loads rose in two succe...