SUMMATION: Bright, modern facility, very good, friendly, efficient service
NAME: Centro Judicial de Utuado; Tribunal Superior de Utuado
ETYMOLOGY: Utuado = between mountains (Taino)
MY RATING: Good (3.4/5)
SIZE: Large building, 2 stories
TITLE: "Cold Court" [Yelp, Parguera Pirate review #554 [1], submitted 10 February 2016]
TELEPHONE: (787) 894-2525/2476; FAX: 787-894-4958/6500
WEB PAGE: http://www.ramajudicial.pr/misc/telefonos.htm#utuado
OWNER: Puerto Rican Government
LOCALITY: Carr. #611 intersección Carr. #111, 24 Ave Fernando L Rivas Dominicce, Utuado, Puerto Rico 00641-2225
POSTAL: P.O. Box 2225
LATITUDE, LONGITUDE: 18°16'9.77"N, 66°41'48.88"W
DIFFICULTY LOCATING: easy
PARKING: Their lot is only for employees. General parking is on-the-street; however, there is an abandoned gas station next door with plenty of parking.
OCCASION: No. The Pirate was not on trial.
LAYOUT: Four glass swinging doors, security check with walk-through metal detector, which is very sensitive, stairs and a ramp up to second floor, no elevator, many, modern courtrooms, oddly, electric plugs in rooms 10 feet high on walls [2]. Waiting room and break tables on 1st floor. Courtroom #5 with 2 doors, had carpet, 66 spectator chairs of, railing separates audience from the court, judge desk on back left with witness stand beside; podium in back middle, with Court Reporter and Bailiff Desk behind, lawyers' desks on back right, adequate florescent lighting
DECORE: Audience chairs plastic and metal, witness, lawyer, and clerk Chairs padded fabric, judge chair similar, but larger; doors and railing wood; walk clock, justice seal, American and Puerto Rico flags
AIR CONDITIONED: too cold [3]
HOURS OF OPERATION: 8:30 am-5 pm Monday-Friday
TYPE: Courthouse
BATHROOM: A bit run down and 2 of the 3 stalls were out of toilet paper and the soap dispenser was empty on both days. Good paper towels.
SECURITY: Pretty good security check, but not perfect. Armed policemen everywhere
NOISE LEVEL: acoustics are okay, but lawyers are loud.
REVIEWS: rated Average, 3.00/5, 2 votes (Google); Excellent, 5.00/5, 3 votes (FaceBook)
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Plus thousands of unnumbered, critical article and book reviews for hundreds of journals.
[2] If you stand in a chair, you can plug in a computer. No one objected and the chairs are sufficiently strong and stable.
[3] For lawyers in coats and ties, but even they said it was too cold. read more
