Partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an attorney representing a car wreck victim in his first in-person trial since the start of the outbreak said he felt a greater sense of compassion for his client among potential and serving jurors than he might have in years past.

“I felt that they were far more compassionate toward my client’s explanation of the injuries causing her isolation,” Orange County attorney Andrew Finkelstein said of the first jury he faced since the start of an era when many became familiar with long hospital stays and loneliness.

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