One of the casualties of legacy media’s decline is court reporting: reporting on gripping cases such as the People v. Christopher Holland, a double murder case in San Joaquin County Superior Court.
Holland, 57, was accused of murdering — of butchering, then executing — an elderly Lodi married couple, “pillars of the Portuguese community,” leaving what one expert called the bloodiest crime scene he ever saw.
“A person who spent his life looking at dead bodies couldn’t count the fractures to the skull” of James Reiswig, 77, who, along with his wife, Mary, 76, were murdered on Dec. 16, 2020, Deputy District Attorney Elton Grau said during closing arguments Tuesday…