The sex trafficking and witness tampering trial of a former high school and college athlete got off to a late start Wednesday after only 30 jurors showed up to the federal courthouse in Little Rock out of 41 who were summoned for the jury pool, necessitating a series of phone calls and emails from the clerk s office to prospective jurors to round out the pool.
The federal court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, long disrupted due to covid-19 precautions that put jury trials on hold for months at a time, is finally getting back on a more normal footing according to the latest administrative order issued by Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr.