TUCSON (KVOA) - The Tucson man convicted for fatally shooting his wife in 2016 was sentenced to life in prison in connection to an unrelated murder on Friday.
The way our justice system usually works, it relies on people talking to other people, in person, sometimes under oath.
For most of a year now, though, itâs been inadvisable at best, dangerous at worst, to get together and hash out our conflicts the normal way.
The police, the jail, the constables, the courts, the attorneys â theyâve all adapted on the fly, sometimes creatively and productively. They use Microsoft Teams, for example, for many court hearings. But the system isnât built for this and is starting to bend under pressure.
The details are as nitty-gritty as this: Pima Countyâs 10 constables, preparing for a possible January onslaught of evictions they have to carry out, say they donât have enough personal protective equipment. They often end up inside peopleâs homes, dealing with them face to face, with just a cloth face covering and maybe gloves.