I have practiced law since 1974. I’ve seen some deplorable courtrooms and some elegant courtrooms. While most of my practice is in federal court, on occasion I do a “guest appearance” in Snohomish County Superior Court.
The Superior Court courtrooms are quite nice just as they are. I can understand that if the case loads require additional courtrooms and hence require a new/additional courthouse, one should be built. I don’t understand what is so defective about the current courthouse that it needs to be torn down. I suspect that this replacement paradigm reflects the inner desire of the politicians for aggrandizement of their individual fifedoms.
If the politicians ever had the personal responsibility for making payroll, no such demolition of the current courthouse for utopian courthouse would ever see the light of day because of the inherent cost restraints.
Yes, I realize that the defendants convicted of a crime would feel so very much better about their conviction experience if the proceedings were conducted in a truly splendiferous building. Maybe it would even decrease their recidivism rate.
If the current courthouse is not torn down then the cost of additional space could track with the need for additional space in a commensurate manner. The money saved could be devoted to further pay increases for top level managers.
With additional pay raises to managers, Premier Lovick could look at himself in the mirror with tremendous satisfaction at his accomplishments. His friends and appointees would simply adore him!
Yes, these are my distorted views. They are the product of being in the trenches, slogging away at representing clients, all of whom also have been in the trenches, laboring at providing themselves and their families with a living, bereft of a patron saint in county government.
David W. Freese
Edmonds
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