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Court ExperienceI went to the court session on Wednesday afternoon at 200 and stayeduntil somewhat 435. They did not start court though until a little after 2. forward court started everyone was talking to each other and having a good time. there was only one other person in the courtroom overly myself watching thetrial and that person was also from this class.When court resumed the lawyers were trying to add together to certain thingsconcerning the trial before the venire came back in. Since I had not seen thebeginning of this trial, I had no idea who was suing whom or what was going on. last after they had got those things ironed out and a map set up, the jurywas finally called back into the courtroom for closing arguments.To give the basics that I picked up from closing arguments was that Gugewho owns the Exxon on 105 extension was wanting more than money from the state forsome property that they were confiscating for construction. The state wasoffering around $60,000 and he wants $300,000. The lawyer for Guge went first.He went on forever it seemed like. It was over an hour that he went on talking.Some of the jurors were falling asleep as tumesce as the judge while he wasspeaking. It seems that he could have been more concise with his argument.Pretty bad when til now the judge nods off. The judge even got up and left duringpart of the closing arguments.&nbs...