“Trial coverage will hold the readers’ attention for about a week,” I was once advised by an editor whom I trusted then, and still do.

At the time I was working for a Sun-Times affiliate in suburban Chicago with a fairly active court docket in the county seat a few towns away (where I lived in an apartment with a rent payment I dream about longingly today). Aside from covering county and state politics, I was in court many days of the week, sometimes for the alternately thrilling and mind-numbing task of covering a trial.

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