Currently, I am having the 'privilege' (as the Courts like to call it) of serving on a jury trial, scheduled over a 3 week period. So, I have not had the opportunity to fill you in on the latest and greatest. Today, we have a day off from listening to droning witness testimony.
For those of you who will also have the 'privilege' of this service in the future (at the LA County Superior Courts downtown), here are some tips on places you may want to hit on your 1.5 hour lunch breaks. With your juror badge, you will receive a 10% discount on your lunch at the Patina cafeteria inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall (just a block or 2 away, depending on which courthouse you are in). Nice, quiet place to sit indoors and they keep the seating area well refrigerated during hot days. Or, take your lunch up in back of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and sit under a shaded tree and enjoy the garden. While on your lunch, check out the gift shop in the Walt Disney Concert Hall. They have lots of music related and other fun gift items.
Also, within blocks is MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) and another cafeteria style cafe downstairs from the entrance. The gift shop at MOCA is chockful of interesting art books and great gift items. On the same block is the Water Court at California Plaza, where at lunch all of the good looking, young, downtown business folk will sit outside and eat. People watch to your heart's content. Continue a few more blocks and you will be at the Central Library and Biltmore Hotel. Both worth spending your time in.
Down the hill from the courthouse, in another direction, is the new LA Police Plaza with plenty of outdoor seating around the building and a touching memorial to those officers that have fallen during the line of duty. And, Little Tokyo just a block after that.
I will fill you in on more, during this most judicial time, as I discover more and ponder the merits of the case at hand, during my breaks.
