Compared to the civil court, there were more people in this criminal court. There are a judge, four court members, about 16 juries, two police officers, the defendant, his attorney, the King County medical officer and about 10 spectators in this case. The atmosphere in this court was more serious than in the previous civil court. The name of this case is Regency Centers, LP v. Hodges (Chamber – Ruling), the case number is 14-1-03783-6, the judge for this trial is Judie Spector and the defendant is Richard Parenteau. This is a murder case that occurred in 2014. In this trial, the defendant's attorney continued to ask King County medical officials for details about this case. It wasn't the first trial, so we didn't understand the history of this case. However, when we returned home we looked up the story of this case on the Internet. The summary of this case concerns a 45-year-old man, Richard Parenteau, who used an ax to kill his mother and stepfather in Seattle's South Park neighborhood. In this criminal trial, I could feel that the atmosphere is very nervous. Not only because the lawyer kept asking serious questions, but we also saw photos of the victim on the
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