King County Superior Court suspends all in-person jury trials
For the second time since the novel coronavirus spread in Washington state, the King County Superior Court suspended all in-person jury trials starting Friday.
Joy Resmovits
Joy Resmovits is a Seattle Times education reporter. She was born and raised in New York, and came to The Times from Southern California, where she worked on education coverage for the Los Angeles Times.
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