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As you first enter the upstairs courtroom, you can almost feel the feeling of law that the solid wood of the bench, jury platform, witness stand and prosecution table and defense table see to show.
The defendant awaiting the sound of the bars unlocking in the downstairs cell would be taken upstairs for trial. The accused would enter the courtroom and be seated at the table in the foreground to await his or her fate. The witness stand can just be seen across the room between the two windows. The jury, seated in the hard wooden chairs you see in the foreground, would listen to the testimony of the prosecution and defense before retiring to the jury room to vote on a verdict.
For everyone, the accused, the lawyers, the judge and the jury would be afforded little or no cool breeze through the high windows during the hot Arizona summers.
After being confined in the dark, hot lockup in the basement of the courthouse, the walk into the upstairs courtroom may have been a welcome relief. Here there would be more room, open windows and perhaps a breath of fresh air filled with flowers growing in the nearby gardens, or the aroma of fresh baked bread coming from the kitchen of one of the houses around the courthouse.
However, if the accused was taken into the courtroom, and led up the left-hand side of the gallery, a glance outside of the windows might be a bit unsettling for it was in the corner of the exercise yard where the gallows were placed. The gallows would not always be visible as they were erected only when needed. But, if there had been a recent hanging, the gallows could still be standing.
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