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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There’s a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who’s telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person’s own biases.

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there’s no filtering. What you see is what’s there.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there’s a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.