Victoria Advocate | "If this court room's a-rocking" by LeslieWilber

If this court room's a-rocking

By LeslieWilber in For your information
March 3, 2009

Oh, just try to ignore it. It's the construction.

Judge Robert Cheshire moved from his fancy, if accurately uncomfortable, courtroom in the historic courthouse to a grayer room on the third floor of the newer building for Jorge Rowe Reyes' murder trial. The ongoing demolition of the old tax office right next to Cheshire's regular courtroom has made it too loud to use.

But even the new courtroom began to rumble after lunch. If jurors were worried, Cheshire told them not to: It's only construction. Not an earthquake.

The upside is the courtroom, normally used by Judge Juan Velasquez III, has cushions on its benches.