High-profile court cases test planning, patience

By Kevin Wilcox
senior staff writer

A crane unloads one of the 190 concrete planter barriers that will help secure the Fairfax County, Va. Judicial Center next month, when it hosts a high-profile case involving murders outside CIA headquarters in 1993. Photo by Kevin Wilcox

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