There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. Friday, October 28 for the new Lewis County satellite courtroom that will be used by the Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia (ICA).
Justices Tim Armstead and Beth Walker, Lewis County Commission President Agnes Queen and the three ICA Judges will attend. The media is invited to attend. The event will also be on Facebook Live on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Judiciary Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wvjudiciary. The event will be in the County Commission Meeting Room (the former circuit court courtroom) in the historic Lewis County Courthouse, 100 Center Avenue, Weston. Tours will be given of the new ICA courtroom nearby, including a demonstration of the webcast system between the satellite courtroom and the main ICA courtroom in Charleston. The ICA began operating July 1, 2022. The three ICA Judges use a courtroom in the West Virginia Judicial Tower in Charleston. Litigants have the choice of traveling to Charleston for proceedings or using one of five satellite courtrooms around the state. Those courtrooms are in Beckley in Raleigh County, Petersburg in Grant County, Weston in Lewis County, Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, and New Martinsville in Wetzel County.
Each satellite courtroom
◼ Is in a space dedicated to the ICA,
◼ Has video conferencing equipment that provides secure connections to the Charleston
ICA courtroom,
◼ Has furniture built by Herbert Hoover High School students, and
◼ Has bailiffs who will be present during all proceedings.
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