There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday, December 8, for the new Grant County satellite courtroom that will be used by the Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia (ICA). The event will be in the main courtroom in the Grant County Courthouse, 5 Highland Avenue, Petersburg. Grant County Commission President Scotty Miley, ICA Chief Judge Dan Greer, ICA Judges Tom Scarr and Charles Lorensen, and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Hutchison will attend.
The media is invited to attend. The event will also be on Facebook Live on the West Virginia Judiciary Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wvjudiciary. 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. Tours will be given of the new ICA courtroom in Grant County, including a demonstration of the webcast system between the satellite courtroom and the main ICA courtroom in Charleston.
The other satellite courtrooms are in Weston in Lewis County, Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, Beckley in Raleigh County, and New Martinsville in Wetzel County.
Each satellite courtroom
◼ Is in a space dedicated to the ICA,
◼ Has video conferencing equipment that provides a secure connection to the Charleston ICA courtroom,
◼ Has furniture built by Herbert Hoover High School students, and
◼ Has a bailiff who will be present during all proceedings.
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