Who among us doesn't love the late Friday night phone call that a client has been arrested and will be on the Saturday morning bond hearing calendar.
We show up only to see Judge [ insert name here] who has spent the last thirty years in Probate Court on page 4 of a 35 page misdemeanor calendar with the felony bond hearings nowhere in sight.
Corrections: Judge standard bond on disorderly conduct is five hundred dollars."
Judge: Defense ?
PD: That's too high.
Judge: Hmmm...do you have case law on this? Can you brief it if I take a short break?
And the sinking feeling that you will not be getting out of weekend bond hearings until well after the sun has set.
Now comes news that due to "technical upgrades" to our courthouse (they are using electrical tape on one of the power outlets on the second floor that is a bit wonky) the whole shebang will be moved.
See below, and good luck and god-speed John Glenn.
This weekend’s bond hearings will be heard at the Children’s Courthouse, courtroom 2-1, due to the information below:
As part of the overall upgrade of the Richard E. Gerstein Building (REG), ITD is installing a UPS (uninterrupted power supply) to feed each of the telecom closets on the East and West sides of the building.
The installation requires we install a 300 AMP circuit breaker into the main panel that feeds electricity to the 9th floor computer room. This installation will require that we power down the computer
room and all the equipment in that room.
This event is currently scheduled for
April 5th, 2019 at about 7pm to allow for the weekend to test and assure that all the equipment starts up properly after the shutdown.
This will affect all telephone and computer access at REG as well as those buildings that feed from the fiber at REG. The Jail, SAO, PDO, Medical Examiners, and Bond Court should plan for the outage with the
possibility that connectivity could be down for the entire weekend.
A formal list of sites affected will be presented at the ITD Hardware Software Meeting when we submit the scheduled outage.
Please feel free to forward this information
And indeed the email was forwarded to us... multiple times.