Invariably, someone will make a request for other types, from Motown to country [and] western. I tell them that’s left to the sound discretion of the court.
— Judge Algenon Marbley (S.D. Ohio), discussing his practice of playing music to mask sidebar conversations with lawyers so that jurors can’t overhear — and noting that he does not take requests.
(Gavel bang: @EJWalters.)
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David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].