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The test case? A nurse’s misdemeanor ticket for speeding in a construction zone.
A Texan’s speeding ticket put her in the legal history books last week.
To combat the backlog in criminal cases created by the pandemic, a Travis County justice of the peace conducted the nation’s first virtual criminal trial. The case was livestreamed on YouTube, and the jurors deliberated in a private Zoom room.
Legal experts debated whether trial by Zoom properly balanced constitutional…