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Justice is blind


Ok, ok, so I promised that I wouldn’t neglect my blogging the last time I fell behind, but I had good intentions… Those intentions lasted just about as long as it took for my scheduled to be turned upside down this week.

Jury selection in the boot camp trial began Monday.  For those of you who don’t know, who may be new to the area or just living under a rock the past two years, click here.

Anyway, I worked last Wednesday through Friday as a reporter, then produced and anchored the weekend shows by myself on Saturday and Sunday nights.  Then went to work on my usual day off Monday at 7:30 am, sat in jury selection all day, did a live shot for the 5p and 6p shows, and put together a package for the 10p show.  I was at work until 11:00 pm Monday night.  Needless to say, I was exhausted.

I had Tuesday off (bless you, Heather!) and got a lot of errands done.  I was supposed to be off Wednesday, too, but jury selection was ahead of schedule and it looked like they might seat a jury on Wednesday instead of Thursday as planned.  So it was back to work yesterday at 8:00 am, sat in on a 4 hour questioning session, put together scripts, came back and worked live for the 5p and 6p.  It was extra exciting because a jury was seated between our 5p and 6p newscasts, so it just added an extra element to the story.

Thankfully, I was able to catch up on my sleep today and have been packing and getting ready for a trip back to Georgia to visit my family and fiancé.  I’m looking forward to a little R&R before coming back next week for probably the biggest media frenzy this town has seen in recent months… the boot camp trial actually starts on Wednesday.  It’ll be an interesting one for sure; Court TV and who knows what other media will be here.

You can be sure I’ll be eating up every minute.  It’s an interesting and complex case and feelings still run high for many people in this area about the incident.

Ta-ta until the craziness of next week!

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Posted on Sep 27, 2007 - 12:50 PM by Tuquyen Mach
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