Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:44 PM 9/16/97 -0500, Eric Welch wrote: >Anyway, now 52 states allow cameras in the courtrooms here in the U.S. and >none of them require Leicas, though some require blimps. Wow! 52 states out of 50! In any event, Virginia effectively bars cameras from the courtroom -- I've done two trials in my career which were filmed, and both were videotaped from outside the courtroom -- there are cameras mounted on the ceilings but the actual film crew have to remain in a separate room. That's as close as we come, and that is only on the rarest of occasions, in the most minor of proceedings. In other words, the judges will bar cameras of any sort, even videotaping, if the trial is deemed important. And no one wants to videotape the little stuff, so we almost never get to that middle ground which has some media interest, but where the Court feels comfortable in allowing taping. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!