Some of these trial sketches... I'm beginning to see why they aren't streaming it like the Rittenhouse trial.
Like what is the Defendant demonstrating to the court here?
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Cameras are not allowed in Federal Courtrooms. Most US Courts, in fact, don't allow them either.Some of these trial sketches... I'm beginning to see why they aren't streaming it like the Rittenhouse trial.
Like what is the Defendant demonstrating to the court here?
Which needs to end because if cameras were allowed. A lot of crooked DAs and Judges would be removed from the bench.
Specifically: to protect the jury from outside influence so they can be as impartial as is practical.
And witnesses from outside stuff as well
That only worked in an age before the internet. Now not so much. Before any trial starts their is already a ton of info all over the place.
This is a real issue.
Well we could always have trials on ships off shore. It may be a tad more expensive but it would be harder for outside influence to get to a jury.
Them too, but that's harder because who testified and what they said under oath is part of the trial transcripts.
Only thing I can think of is to make it so the consequences of doing that are too dire for anyone to want to risk; because as it stands, there are none.
I mean, it wouldn't be that hard to put the Jury behind tinted glass to prevent a camera phone from taking pictures, and police already protect jury busses (see MSNBC getting caught trying in the Rittenhouse case).
I think that is the real answer. The lawyers want to have the jury on hand, to gauge reactions and to have those little moments with. If the jury is kept in a seperate building for example and are just face camed into the trial it would interfere in that a bit. Although we are at the tech level where something like that could be done. Imagine if the juries watch a wall sized screen that has the trial, and the trial sees the same. The jury could be anywhere in the area without any worry about reporters, or being attacked by anyone.
