Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colorado last week became the first state to overturn the widespread legal barrier against news photographers in the courtroom. After two weeks of hearings and demonstrations of new photographic equipment (TIME, Feb. 13), the state Supreme Court unanimously gave Colorado judges discretion to permit coverage not only by photographers but also by radio and TV. Special condition: no witness or juror "shall be photographed or have his testimony broadcast over his expressed objection...
Within an hour of the court's ruling the Denver Post asked a district judge to permit photographic coverage of the trial of a man charged with robbery. That afternoon the Post front-paged a general shot of the courtroom, and the Rocky Mountain News next morning ran a picture of the defendant on the stand...
...table but forbidden to stand, leave their seats or use flashbulbs. Using 35-mm. cameras, they made about 565 shots, completely won the approval of Judge Carroll: "The photographers didn't interfere with the conduct of the trial as much as coughing in the spectator section of the courtroom did. There was no disrespect shown to the court. I feel that a photographer is exactly the same as a reporter, and should be extended the same privileges. A picture is as important as a story-sometimes more important because it could possibly be more accurate than a verbal description...
...Although many courtroom doors were shut to them earlier, the American Bar Association in 1937 made an anti-photography ruling which has been widely followed, written into the law of 14 states...
...Yolaine Randall, 26, a dark and vacantly beautiful model, love was a good address. In a Manhattan courtroom last week Yolaine's husband. Sol Randall, 36, a $60-a-week restaurant cashier, tried to explain Yolaine's attitude toward their $186-a-month suite at the Century. "To her, the apartment on Central Park West was society stuff, the 400," said Sol. "I tried to move out-it was too expensive for me. She said she wouldn't live out of the Century. She said, 'When I tell people I live at the Century that means...