I don't remember the room # now, but I think it was 53A or 53B. I parked at the Twiggs St. Parking Garage - a city garage - and I got to pay with a credit card. $7 for 5 hours or more.
Leaving the garage you go left and cross the street at the crosswalk and enter the Courthouse at the Twiggs Street entrance. You'll go through a metal detector.
Take either the escalator or the elevator to the 2nd floor. Watch for the sign for the overpass that goes over the street to the building across the steet and take that.
Once in the building across the street, take the elevator to the 5th floor. Bathrooms are across from the elevator. Turn left off the elevator and the Courtroom will be on your right.
As long as you are quiet, you can enter and leave anytime. Court starts at 8:30am tomorrow, but if you are late you can still go in.
At lunchtime they send everyone out and they close and lock the doors until just before Court is to start again.
In the building where you originally go in with the metal detectors, there is a cafeteria on the second floor. They have good egg salad sandwiches. There are also vending machines there.
You will not be able to see anything on the monitor as it faces the spectators, so if they put an Exhibit up on the monitor, you don't see it.
There is a board that looks like a sound board on the left in the Courtroom with a man operating it. That, I believe, is Tampa Bay Times livestreaming.
There is a camera in the front row, I believe, with an Asian woman and a man. The guard told me that was In Session taping the show.
Hope that helps. I'd like to hear your impressions when you return.
I want to be there if and when Howard Stitzel takes the stand.
