The news media serve as "...feedback devices providing [public officials] with early clues to how the general, or the "informed," public feels about their actions and statements,"5 The media are not merely conveyors but also drivers of public discourse, framing and interpreting issues and information,6 Research has found that the media's influence is so pervasive that it is an independent contributor to definitions of social reality.7 This symbiotic relationship between the media, the public, and the justice system is also characterized by a tension that often surfaces around the issue of competing rights. The Judicial Conference of the United States, the policy-making body of the federal courts, continues to oppose cameras in trial courts though appellate level coverage is permitted a...
In U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson's courtroom, four cameras focus on the witness stand, the lectern where lawyers ask questions, the judge's bench and the desk where evidence is displayed. The cameras are a pilot project to study the impact of cameras on those in the federal court, including the plaintiff and defendant, jurors, the judges, and the attorneys, Robinson said.
Those who favor televising U.S. Supreme Court proceedings - the New Era among them - were not heartened by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's recent comments on the subject. At a Colorado judicial conference, Ginsburg was highly critical of televised confirmation hearings for high court justices. TV affords members of the Senate Judiciary Committee "all that free time" to perform in front of the cameras, she said.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced legislation that would require U.S. Supreme Court proceedings to be televised. The Cameras in the Courtroom Act, S. 1945, would require all proceedings at the Court to be broadcasted unless the majority of justices vote that such a broadcast would violate the due process rights of one or more of the parties to the proceedings.
A total of 36 red-light camera violations have been dismissed or not filed in Columbia Municipal Court because of insufficient or contradictory evidence, and the city prosecutor is still trying to iron out wrinkles in the new system. Of 297 red-light violations on record with the court since the cameras became operational on Sept. 4, about 157 violations are pending in municipal court, and 36 have been dismissed or rejected for prosecution by city Prosecutor Rose Wibbenmeyer, court clerk Shara Meyer said.
During a recent discussion in Boston, retired Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter chatted with veteran Supreme Court journalist Linda Greenhouse about how the public image of judges - including Supreme Court justices - has changed over the years. Speaking at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in an event broadcast on C-SPAN, O'Connor noted that the biggest change on the Supreme Court is the new diversity on the bench.
The U.S. District Court in St. Louis is among 14 federal district courts that will take part in a three-year pilot project to study the effect of cameras in courtrooms. More than 100 federal trial judges will participate in the project -- a group that includes judges who favor cameras in court and judges who are skeptical of them, according to information provided by the federal judiciary.
Cameras in Supreme Court With the retirement of Justice David H. Souter from the U.S. Supreme Court, the time has come to open the court to television coverage. Souter infamously told a congressional committee in 1996 that "the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body. His colleagues have not been as adamant, though most remain camera-shy. But these old phobias have proven invalid in televised cases before lower courts.
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