By Jamie Brooks
A season with the night courts
The filing
Misdemeanors after 8 p.m. Bond is set in minutes. Families wait in a hallway with one working fountain.
The desk named the people on the floor and the time the clerk posted. If a figure moves after first edition, the correction stays on the story.
What the desk filed
Readers get a byline, a date, and a public window. Tips that arrive after midnight wait for a second check.
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