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of their clients and witnesses who may be afraid of someone who has threatened them. Chairman Wheeler felt that generally if someone involved with a trial is violent enough to commit a crime, you will have some prior knowledge that may be a possibility and probably will take additional precautions. If you are dealing with someone who wants to get someone and is intelligent or devious enough to conceal his emotions, he will wait for his opportunity no matter what you do. Commissioner Scurlock asked why the local Bar Association doesn't get together and put up $100,000 to help deal with this situation to secure a facility they work in if they are so concerned. Attorney Nall noted that this is something that is easy to joke about, but it is a dangerous situation. Generally people who end up going to court are not happy to be there. The danger does exist, and it exists for the judges who have their quarters there, and it exists for the judicial assistants who are there every day. They already have a buzzer that you have to press to get in the judges' offices. Commissioner Scurlock pointed out that the Commission's secretaries have everybody in the world walking into the Commission offices, and they have no protection or warning at all. Attorney Nall just wished to note that the lawyers will be unhappy if you don't put more security in the Courthouse. He continued to present arguments about various dangerous hypo- thetical situations and stressed that the County has an antiquated facility and they are leaving people who work there with absolutely no security. Commissioner Scurlock stated that is absolutely not correct; hand-held metal detectors are currently available. Chairman Wheeler understood that at the St. Lucie County Courthouse many of the judges, etc., who use that courthouse on a 37 FACE °�