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...trial-happy public that has grown accustomed to tuning in to CNN or Court TV for its daily courtroom fix, Howard's decision must have been a bitter blow. But Howard isn't the only judge in the 47 states that permit courtroom cameras who has been spooked by the Simpson case. Superior Court Judge Lawrence Antolini, who is currently presiding over the California trial of the accused murderer of Polly Klaas, has imposed a gag order on lawyers and restricted TV coverage to the first five minutes of each court day. Last week he vowed, "Nothing like...
...Susan Smith's life and uncovered beneath the National Honors Society membership and "friendliest girl'' yearbook title a morass of sexual exploits and personal losses. As the murder trial of Susan Smith begins this week in Union, Judge William L. Howard Jr., who is barring all cameras from the courtroom, has indicated that the proceedings will not come to resemble those under way in O.J. Simpson's double-murder case. But the 10-page, 74-item juror questionnaire indicates that both the defense and prosecution teams will be grappling with explosive emotional material. "There may be some testimony about extramarital...
...internal research as "privileged" to avoid having to reveal the information to anyone suing the company over health problems. "We've seen a lot of this information before," says TIME's Anastasia Toufexis, "but never so much compiled in one place. The biggest impact will probably come in the courtroom. These 10,000 pages will give a lot of ammunition to lawsuits against the tobacco companies." A Brown & Williamson spokesman accused the AMA of engaging in "a cherry-picking exercise" in pursuit of its agenda to wipe out smoking...
...might expect that once celebrity has quitted the courtroom, we could find solace in the lurid details of Susan Smith's infanticide. But no. A South Carolina judge has ruled that there will be no cameras in the courtroom, thus denying Americans from sea to shining sea the opportunity to relive those brutal moments straight from the alleged killer's tear-stained testimony (and all in convenient 30-second sound bites...
...many others, the only way to keep one's wits is to retreat from the larger picture and enter a more comprehensible segment. Maybe that's what leads so many of us to look for a place where everybody knows your name, or lacking that, to Judge Ito's courtroom--where you're sure to know everybody's name even if you're not so sure what's in the Mystery Envelope...