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Court Case & Hearings; Discussion and Articles / Re: Some of the odd things at trial & outside courthouse so far
« on: October 15, 2011, 01:34:55 PM »I found this here...no press inside the courtroom. The courtroom is on the 9Th floor, the press on the 12 th floor, the only floor where pics and filming is allowed.
That means they could have always filmed it all and send it at that day to the waiting press....so little actuall little thinks like the weather, that give it a live touch could they put in...that's not the problem and ...rearly, why mentioned a judge a little rain ? only when it will make this all a live illusion... /toldya/
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It is remarkable that what they are saying may 100% be taken as a pure ironic statement.Quote“I believe in transparency,” said CNN Anchor Don Lemon. “I think that’s what America is all about. Americans should be in on the process,” Lemon said. “Visual media is part of the media. It helps when people see how the process works. Without transparency, there is room to conceal things,” he said.Ethan Smith, a senior special writer with the Wall Street Journal’s Los Angeles bureau, was in court every day during week one. “We have to be the eyes and ears of the people to keep the process accountable,” Smith said. The television coverage, ironically, keeps the press more accountable. “It turns the mirror back on us and keeps us accountable even as we are keeping the courts accountable,” Smith said. Each day, I lined up with Smith, Lemon, Seib and dozens of others to wait for deputies to waive us into the courtroom. You were on time, through two security checks, wearing your press badge, or you didn’t get in the courtroom. Court public information officer Mary Hearn, working with her staff and court deputies, ensured that no pictures were taken on the ninth floor, cleared the hallway of press as trial participants walked in each day, and generally kept order. That’s why if Murray is convicted, his chances of arguing that the press ruined his case appear to be nil, as was the case when disgraced Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling made that failed argument in a case that reached the Supreme Court in 2010.Has the argument ever worked? Well, yes.The seminal example of a defendant successfully arguing that the press violated his Sixth Amendment rights came in the 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case Sheppard v. Maxwell. In Sheppard the U.S. Supreme Court said that the trial judge and the press allowed a “Roman circus” atmosphere to prevail.Dr. Sam Shepherd, convicted of killing his pregnant wife, was granted a new trial as a result and eventually walked away a free man. The Shepherd case is widely believed to be the inspiration for the Harrison Ford film “The Fugitive.”
But getting back to “these arts” and their evolution, it is remarkable that so many broadcasters—all local Los Angeles television stations, plus AP Broadcast, Reuters, Univision, MetroNetworks, CBS Radio, Fox Radio News, UniSat, CNN/HLN and a host of others—are all able to transmit the trial without creating the same circus atmosphere that soiled Shepherd v. Maxwell. They do it with three quiet video cameras and a single coordinator. They do it with cooperation between the courts and the media.
smiley_spider /cook/ afraid/
The circus is being operated now by somebody in control.
I noticed this too. The Judge talkes a lot about the weather. Last Thurday the 13th again. When they stopped, he said something about it is going to be very warm; we are coming maybe into the three digit. But later that night I looked at CNN and they had the weather forcast for 5 days for Los Angeles and it said 20-21 degrees Celsius or 68-69.8 Fahrenheit. That made me also think that everything is not live and filmed earlier.
And another thing does anyone know where the public is seated, I mean the public wihich can obtain a seat through lottery system?