In a 9:30 a.m. arraignment in Dept. 17, counsel said ‘Objection,’ the judge said ‘Sustained,’ and my hands almost produced the everyday ‘food’ sign before the Code of Professional Conduct and register fidelity rescued me on the record. Anyone else get these near-identical-sign collisions in legal settings, and how do you reset without disrupting due process?
, that 9:30 a.m. brain — “sustained” had me halfway to “food” more than once. My fix is to assign a tight JUDGE locus early and give a micro eye-shift to the bench before producing “ALLOW/SUSTAINED”; that 0.5-second anchor resets me without stepping on due process. Do you set loci in Dept. 17 or keep it neutral when counsel is rapid-fire?
I give myself a built-in brake: non-dominant hand flat-B aimed to the bench for a half beat before producing SUSTAIN, which interrupts the FOOD motor plan and lets me reset without noise; it’s tiny but CPC-safe (CPC - Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc.). Do you mark a bench locus early or keep it floating in Dept. 17?