It has been less than two weeks since the Philadelphia court system began to reopen its doors to jurors so trials may resume, but a team of leading defense attorneys are saying that the safety precautions the court has put in place are “inadequate” and fail to fully ensure the safety of those entering the criminal justice center.

On Sept. 14, eight members of the defense bar, many of them former chairs of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section and who also have been part of a team of lawyers helping the First Judicial District leadership develop its safety plans to reopening the court during the COVID-19 pandemic, sent a letter to the FJD leadership outlining several issues they see as shortcomings in the current safety protocols in place at the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice.

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