Prospective jurors who ascended to a sixth-floor courtroom in the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse yesterday were greeted by a puzzling sight:
A single faded, chair-sized cushion was sitting in the middle of each of the three long wooden benches where they were to sit.
Underneath each cushion, the jurors discovered, was a sharp protruding nail. Someone had tried to cover the nails with cellophane tape, but still they stuck up.
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