“I made a decision to send them home for the day, and we will resume the trial in the morning,” Land said. Land said he was told it was “more than three or four jurors” involved, but he was not sure of the exact number.

When he told of the issue, Land went downstairs to the jury assembly room, where the jurors gathered after being removed from the stuck elevator. Land said they never left the building after he dismissed them for lunch. “About 1:15, I was informed that multiple jurors were stuck on the elevator,” Land told News 3. They were to return at 1:30 for opening statements.

He gave jurors preliminary instructions and sent them to lunch. Superior Court Judge Ben Land was trying the case in a ninth-floor courtroom. ( WRBL) - A Muscogee County Superior Court judge halted a murder trial Tuesday afternoon when multiple jurors got stuck in a Government Center elevator for an extended period.Ī jury had just been seated in the trial of Javon McClendon, Nashira Miller, and Daijon Williams in the 2019 murder of Javion Shorter.

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