Some hope to make it in the courtroom while others plan to sell their seat.
About a dozen members of the public lined up outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Saturday to secure a seat for Monday's proceedings.As a light rain began to fall on lower Manhattan Saturday night, a group of people across the street from the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse zipped up their tents and clutched their sleeping bags.
The line began to form at 6 a.m. Saturday morning with Tina Johnson, a Westchester resident whose past attempts to get in the courtroom failed when she arrived too late. She began an informal list and camped out on a bench on the outskirts of Collect Pond Park. By noon on Saturday, a line slowly formed behind her.
"It's history in the making," said Michael Powers, who made it into the courtroom last Monday after joining the line at 2:30 p.m. the day before. "This isn't going to happen very often."With the immense public interest in the case, court officials have established a system of lines to allocate seats in both the main courtroom where the proceedings take place and a nearby overflow room where the press and public can watch a video feed of the proceedings.
Others on the line hope to make money from their time waiting. At least one member of the line on Saturday night was a professional line sitter, paid an hourly rate by a client to hold the spot on line until Monday morning.
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