Navigation The key to pulling off the Fourth Circuit’s virtual jury trial was the court tech officers who served as ‘remote bailiffs’
Fourth Judicial Circuit officials say Florida’s first fully remote, binding civil jury trial was a milestone in moving the courts forward in the age of COVID-19.
A day after the August 10 verdict in Griffin v. Albanese Enterprise, Inc. D/B/A Paradise, Circuit Judge Bruce Anderson said the trial achieved what he had hoped — a remote trial that, as much as possible, resembled the “real thing.”
“To me, it felt like a real trial and it looked like a real trial,” he said. “I felt that adrenaline rush that I normally feel before a trial.”
