"All arise for the Hon. Judge..."

We (as in Anya and I and our friend Julianne) have been quite busy this past week watching/following various and sundry cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Center (L.A.s criminal court) located on Temple street (in downtown). Look forward to some amusing elevator quotes, a summary of the Anna Nicole Smith trial's opening arguments made by the defense attorneys (yes, there were three people being tried and each one had two lawyers). Also, we will summarize another case involving a gang member in possession of a loaded firearm (however, we will not use real names...sorry). It has been a very amusing week which started off with seeing a pretty high profile case and getting asked if the subway was scary and ended with an interesting mistrial and brownies made by a judge.