Are there differences in bench trials from jury trials?
Judge Barrett: With a bench trial, I dont know that it is any different except that I would hope that I wouldnt get so much repetitiveness and I hope that repetitiveness kind of sinks in with all lawyers. Jurors are smart and they try real hard and they dont like to be told time and time again the same thing. I will get on lawyers for it, I truly will. Once I have heard it a couple of times, I will stop the music and tell them to get moving. With a bench trial, I would like a trial brief before the trial so I know what it is all about. FJC: Do you want proposed findings of fact? Judge Barrett: No, I dont do that. Usually, what I will do, I try to take good notes during a bench trial and then I will give the lawyers I usually take it under advisement at the end of the trial and give the lawyers a date within about ten days that I will have some findings ready. I will have them come back and maybe this is not a good policy, I dont know, but I have them come back, read into the record my
