By TERESA STEPZINSKI
The Florida Times-Union
Savannah Morning News
May 4, 2010
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood was on the bench. A witness testified from the stand. Jurors and spectators listened attentively.
Everything seemed normal in federal court Monday. Then came a crash, a dash and another crash all seemingly in the blink of an eye. A thief disguised in sunglasses, ball cap and baggy clothing burst into the courtroom through a side door, snatched a briefcase from the defense table then slammed out the main door with a court security officer in hot pursuit.
Wood, unfazed, quickly called on the fourth-graders who filled her courtroom as jurors and spectators for help as witnesses to describe what happened.
It might have looked realistic, but the snatch-and-grab theft, like the trial, wasn't real. It was part of a unique Law Day program attended by about 250 Glynn County fourth-grade students in Wood's courtroom at the federal courthouse in Brunswick.
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