Jurists with decades of combined experience are engaging in mock trials, because the return to jury trials in Georgia amid the pandemic will look different from ever before.

Judge Penny Freesemann, Chatham County Superior Court. (Courtesy photo) Judge Penny Freesemann, Chatham County Superior Court. (Courtesy photo)

“What lawyers will notice right away is everybody’s wearing a mask and everybody has to speak a little more clearly, and there’s plexiglass everywhere,” said Chief Judge Penny Haas Freesemann of the Eastern Judicial Circuit, which is comprised solely of Chatham County.