By: Richard Simon

At 7:15 a.m. on March 12, a couple of hours before a slew of residents and reporters descended on the Baltimore County Circuit Courthouse for the Exxon verdicts, Danny Jacobs was waiting outside the courtroom.

He’d been waiting for that moment for five months.

As some of our readers know, Danny had been diligently following the Exxon leak trial in Baltimore County.

To our knowledge, Danny was the only reporter to extensively cover the trial. He wrote more than 30 stories in total; as a result he became a familiar face in the courtroom, developing relationships with a number of the plaintiffs and lawyers from both sides.

Although there are still more Jacksonville residents who await trial with Exxon – and more work to be done on Danny’s end – here are Danny’s reflections of his coverage of the trial.