Law Practice,
Criminal
Apr. 30, 2020
Reflections on trying an 8-week jury trial during COVID-19
With the virus raging through Kentucky as well as the nation, Judge Caldwell was presented with a challenge unlike any other federal judge has had to face since this was the only ongoing federal trial in the United States.
Randy Sue Pollock
Randy Sue is a criminal defense attorney in Oakland specializing in federal cases throughout the United States.
After eight weeks of trial and nine days of jury deliberations, a federal jury in Lexington, Kentucky acquitted my client of conspiracy to transport drugs and money laundering. The case, which dealt with drugs distributed from the Sinaloa drug cartel, presented many concerns for attorneys and defendants from Los Angeles but one of the most was being in trial when the COVID-19 virus began to rage and Gov. Andy Beshear issued shelter-in-place orders after trial had begu...
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