New Mexico Metro Courthouse - Albuqurque, New Mexico, USA.
N 35° 05.492 W 106° 39.031
13S E 349548 N 3884439
State of New Mexico - Metropolitan Courthouse - is home to the Bernalillo County Metro Court. Opened in January 2004, as part of Albuquerque's new downtown Courthouse District.
Waymark Code: WMMJ86
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2014
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The nine story courthouse was designed around a three-story rotunda,
in a contemporary art deco style.
The Text on the top front of the entrance Rotunda reads 'State of New Mexico - Metropolitan Courthouse'
Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court - Albuquerque. Features Giant Weighing Scales, the scales are designed as a water feature. As water is transferred by internal pipes to the pans, the balance arm moves up or down.
"The sculpture of the scales works backwards. The pans on the scales have water poured into them through internal plumbing. However, the water enters the lowered pan, the one that would already indicate the greater weight of evidence. When the water fills the pan the scales tip the opposite direction than the laws of physics dictate.
Contrary to what appears in these pictures to be happening to the scales, the upper pan should accept water and then move downward. Not as it is now, where the lowered pan accepts water, then rises.
So what does it mean? Is it any indication of how justice actually works in New Mexico? Or is the public supposed to be blind to justice?" Text source: (
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"The cost of the courthouse is covered by monies collected state-wide for court uses. Each defendant paying fines to New Mexico courts pays a $24 facility fee to cover the costs of courthouse construction all over the state." Text Source: (
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