cameras in the courtroom – Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:33:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 “Sheriff Says Use of Camera to Zoom in on Defense Attorney’s Notes Was ‘Inadvertent'” https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/sheriff-says-use-of-camera-to-zoom-in-on-defense-attorneys-notes-was-inadvertent/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/sheriff-says-use-of-camera-to-zoom-in-on-defense-attorneys-notes-was-inadvertent/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2019 05:05:16 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73003 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 that? The sheriff appears to have argued that releasing the video in question “‘could expose weaknesses in court security,’ but […]

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]]> 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 that? The sheriff appears to have argued that releasing the video in question “‘could expose weaknesses in court security,’ but it’s a little late for that. In any event, there is a more interesting question still to be answered, namely why the sheriff can control a courtroom camera from his office.” [Kevin Underhill, Lowering the Bar]

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]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/sheriff-says-use-of-camera-to-zoom-in-on-defense-attorneys-notes-was-inadvertent/feed/ 2 Cameras at the Supreme Court https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/cameras-at-the-supreme-court/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/cameras-at-the-supreme-court/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2015 04:15:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=53426 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 someone who apparently agrees [Jonathan Bruno, SSRN] Tags: cameras in the courtroom, Supreme Court

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]]> 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 someone who apparently agrees [Jonathan Bruno, SSRN]

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]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/cameras-at-the-supreme-court/feed/ 5 Sometimes privacy wins out https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/07/sometimes-privacy-wins/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:15:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=47236 A Utah lawyer has been stalled on his hopes of broadcasting divorce cases on YouTube [Salt Lake Tribune] Tags: cameras in the courtroom, divorce, Utah

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]]> A Utah lawyer has been stalled on his hopes of broadcasting divorce cases on YouTube [Salt Lake Tribune]

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]]> Against cameras at the Supreme Court https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/03/cameras-supreme-court/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/03/cameras-supreme-court/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2014 04:15:43 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=44707 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 insulated from popular passions. [Tamara Tabo, Above the Law] Earlier on cameras in the courtroom here. Tags: cameras in the […]

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]]> 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 insulated from popular passions. [Tamara Tabo, Above the Law] Earlier on cameras in the courtroom here.

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]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/03/cameras-supreme-court/feed/ 1 March 5 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/03/march-5-roundup-4/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/03/march-5-roundup-4/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 04:05:55 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=44088 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, 2011 related, earlier here, etc.] French court: fan club members suffered legally cognizable emotional damage from Michael Jackson’s death [Lowering the Bar, earlier] “The Newkirk incident demonstrates […]

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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, 2011 related, earlier here, etc.]
  • French court: fan club members suffered legally cognizable emotional damage from Michael Jackson’s death [Lowering the Bar, earlier]
  • “The Newkirk incident demonstrates why cameras in the courtroom are a bad idea” [James Taranto, includes bonus New York Times disgrace]
  • Claim: advocates stymied firearms research over most of past two decades. Accurate? [Fox News]
  • Another look at the CPSC’s war on former Buckyballs CEO Craig Zucker [Jim Epstein, Reason, earlier]
  • Chris Christie use of monitorships in white-collar prosecutions draws renewed scrutiny [New Republic, earlier]
  • In which I am included in a list with George Will and Heather Mac Donald, all very flattering etc. etc. [Charles C. W. Cooke, NRO]
  • D.C.: disbarred lawyer sat for years as workers comp judge [Washington City Paper]
  • “German home-school family won’t be deported” although Supreme Court declines to hear asylum appeal [AP; discussion in comments earlier]
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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/03/march-5-roundup-4/feed/ 2     One way to get around courtroom camera ban https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/one-way-to-get-around-courtroom-camera-ban/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/one-way-to-get-around-courtroom-camera-ban/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:16:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26971 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 either puppet coverage of arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court or a full reenactment of the Rod Blagojevich trial.”) Tags: cameras […]

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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 either puppet coverage of arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court or a full reenactment of the Rod Blagojevich trial.”)

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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/one-way-to-get-around-courtroom-camera-ban/feed/ 5     Disposition of Anna Nicole Smith remains https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/02/disposition-of-anna-nicole-smith-remains/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/02/disposition-of-anna-nicole-smith-remains/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:32:05 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4560 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 posts; Althouse, Feb. 22). Tags: cameras in the courtroom, federalism

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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 posts; Althouse, Feb. 22).

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