Virtual hearings at times conducted through slots in jail cell doors
“I’m ready to go home, I know you are too,” a Travis County judge said to a jailer just after 5am last Friday, April 12.
“I’m half-asleep,” the woman in the cell said Friday. “Is there some way that I could see you and your face?” The woman responded from inside her echoing jail cell: “I’m trying to see you. I don’t understand why I’m talking to you through this thing.” They found that, during hearings, judges sometimes explicitly stated how a lawyer’s presence would result in $0 bail. Magistrate Judge Tanisa Jeffers, perhaps the busiest magistrate because she works the night shift, described this to a defendant in a jail cell last Friday.
Of course, the same impoverished people who struggle to prove they have a place to stay and transportation to get to court usually cannot afford attorneys.
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