But inside, a great expanse of the courthouse is hot, even for Arizona, where "hot" is not employed lightly.
At lunchtime today, patrons at Coney Island Hot Dogs, a diner near the courthouse, repeatedly used the words "shock," "shocked" and "shocking" to describe their reactions.
But one member of the sect, Willie Jessop, speaking to reporters outside the courthouse here, as a hot wind whipped the trees on a day pushing 100 degrees, said that the settlement was flawed, but that half a loaf was good enough.
At Cape May, N.J., where rooms are usually reserved a year in advance, vacationers turned to the little museums and guided tours of the historical courthouse -- places they ignored when the weather was hot and they were aching for the beach.
Ms. Anthony's trial at the Orange County Courthouse here, which began in early May, is this year's hot attraction, with courtroom passes going to the first 50 people hardy enough to withstand Florida's humidity for 10 hours at a time.
The Camden County Hall of Justice, a modern, brown-brick building where the trial is unfolding, doesn't have the architectural splendor of the Flemington courthouse, but just the same there is a small plaza with hot dog vendors where jurors and lawyers often eat lunch.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles, whose lodge abuts the courthouse parking lot, fired up a charcoal grill and served sodas, hamburgers, hot dogs and sausage and pepper sandwiches to members of the news media the first few days of the trial.
The elevator going up to the twenty-fourth floor, where the hearing was held, was, as courthouse elevators usually are, redolent of breakfast pastries and the acrid smell of hot coffee meeting paper cup.
The Surrogates' Courthouse downtown is actually a Bosch-ian dance club with an interior of Scarface-esque hot tubs?
Oakland, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party, was a hotbed of leftist radicalism and political turmoil; the year before, Huey P. Newton had been tried at the courthouse across the street in the killing of a police officer.
