Remote camera pans
Courtroom when court’s in recess.
That’s against the rules.
5/3/95
The rules seemed so easy to follow. One was that cameras had to be off/not shooting when court was in session. The reason the wall-mounted remotely controlled TV camera wasn’t, according to folks with Court TV, who was in charge of operating the camera, is because they needed to test it. Well, this was May, months after the trial began. And if it did need to be tested or adjusted, they should have let me or the bailiff know and gotten approval do operate it during recess.
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