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Norm Pattis suspects the influence of cameras in the courtroom may help explain the histrionics of presiding judge Larry Seidlin (Crime and Federalism, Feb. 22; Above the Law, Feb. 22, first and second...
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Ohio TV station WOIO is re-enacting highlights of a local corruption trial with puppets. More: Lowering the Bar (“I think that all court proceedings should be reported in this way, but would settle for...
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U.S. Commission on Civil Rights commissioners Gail Heriot, Peter Kirsanow: Administration’s new policy on race and school discipline likely to make schools more chaotic [Robby Soave, Daily Caller,...
View ArticleAgainst cameras at the Supreme Court
The rest of government, from Congress to the White House to prosecution to the regulatory agencies, is already rife with grandstanding. We don’t need or want it in the branch that’s supposed to be best...
View ArticleSometimes privacy wins out
A Utah lawyer has been stalled on his hopes of broadcasting divorce cases on YouTube [Salt Lake Tribune] Tweet Tags: cameras in the courtroom, divorce, Utah Sometimes privacy wins out is a post from...
View ArticleCameras at the Supreme Court
Unlike many writers and journalists I’m not a fan of cameras in the courtroom and in particular not the perennial proposal to introduce cameras at the Supreme Court. So it’s nice to run into a piece by...
View Article“Sheriff Says Use of Camera to Zoom in on Defense Attorney’s Notes Was...
The courtroom camera in San Juan County, Washington “zoomed back out and then panned to the left to the defense counsel’s table and zoomed down directly on [her] yellow legal pad….” So why’d it do...
View Article“Sheriff Says Use of Camera to Zoom in on Defense Attorney’s Notes Was...
The courtroom camera in San Juan County, Washington “zoomed back out and then panned to the left to the defense counsel’s table and zoomed down directly on [her] yellow legal pad….” So why’d it do...
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