originally posted by Thor:
When we delivered the verdict, the defendant's brother charged us from the gallery, yelling that he was going to kill us, and was just barely tripped up by the only baliff (who must have been 70; he kept falling asleep during the trial) in the room. He was followed by his mother, shouting a different set of threats, and she was eventually caught as police with guns drawn came rushing into the courtroom from all three entrances. We were escorted out a secret entrance under armed guard, all the way to our cars (and those who took public transportation got an escort all the way home).