The second day of Jermaine Washington’s first-degree murder trial began with a scolding by Judge Robert Wyatt after jurors told a bailiff they had felt uncomfortable the day before when family members who had appeared in the courtroom on Monday congregated in the parking lot after court was dismissed, some actually leaning against jurors’ vehicles.

“Several of the jurors yesterday felt they were being confronted and intimidated when members of Washington’s family hung around in the parking lot,” Wyatt said ahead of the jury being brought into the courtroom.

Wyatt said obstruction of justice charges would not be out of the question if that were proven true. The families of both Washington and victim Dorian Colston were asked to leave the courtroom so that each juror could be individually interviewed by the prosecution and defense.

Three of the jurors told Wyatt it was actually members of Colston’s family who were making them uncomfortable — not Washington’s supporters. All denied they felt intimidated.

“A lot of people with us in the courtroom hung around us in the parking lot,” one juror said. “It was uncomfortable because they could see what we were driving. I didn’t feel uncomfortable at that time, but when the trial is over, no matter the verdict, they know who we are and what we drive.”

In asking for a mistrial, defense attorney Pride Doran said he was concerned none of the 14 jurors “owned up” to accusing family members of being intimidating to jurors though that was what was originally reported to the bailiff.

Wyatt denied the mistrial motion, saying after talking to jurors he didn’t feel it had risen to the level of warranting a mistrial. He did, however, apologize to Doran for scolding him after initially being told the people making jurors uncomfortable were from the defendant’s family.