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By New York State Committee to Review Audio-Visual Coverage of Court Proceedings.

ISBN-10: 0823218104

ISBN-13: 9780823218103

On June 30, 1997, the test, initiated in 1987, that gave trial judges discretion to permit televised and still-camera assurance of civil and felony trial court docket complaints in long island country got here to an finish. After years of research, a 12-member, state-appointed committee has issued its findings and suggestions at the query of cameras in manhattan courts. Their effects are contained in An Open court. This e-book bargains: an creation, government precis; assessment of the committee's paintings; a precis of the present legislations; evaluate of digicam legislation in different states and in federal courts; precis of the committee's list; the committee's review and conclusions; suggestion; appendices which come with the result of a jurist ballot and the committee's judicial survey, interviews, and different pertinent info; and a minority file/ dissent arguing opposed to the committee's techniques.

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V. 2d 621 (1996) (reversing Family Court order denying motion to exclude press and public from courtroom). , ยง 218(3)(b). Y. Court Rules, Part 131. A copy of the implementing rules is included in Appendix D. Y. 1(a). 1(d). ''43 For the most part, the implementing rules track the language of Section 218 itself. However, in certain specific instances, the rules provide additional guidance to judges. For instance, the rules make it clear that if a crime victim, a prospective witness, a party, or a child objects to camera coverage, the judge may hold a conference and "conduct any direct inquiry as may be fitting"44 before ruling on the application for camera coverage.

His help was enormous. , who volunteered to enter all of the data from the judicial surveys into the Committee's data base and helped display the final results. Paul Woomer and the other computer specialists at the Fordham University Law School's "Help Desk" made sure that our computers were able to store and retrieve all of the information and data we collected. Professor Beth Schwartz of Fordham Law School volunteered to interview jury consultants about their experience with cameras in the courtroom.

In allowing for an experimental period, the New York State Legislature noted in its 1987 findings that: court proceedings are complex, often involving human factors that are difficult to measure. There may be inherent problems in any court proceeding which could possibly be complicated by audio-visual coverage. [T]he Legislature, remaining sensitive to these concerns, hereby determines that, in order to enhance public familiarity with the workings of the judicial system, while not interfering with the dignity and decorum of the courtroom, the prohibition of audio-visual coverage of court proceedings should be modified for an experimental period.

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