Starting May 1, the Indiana Supreme Court is giving judges the authority to decide whether to allow cameras in their courtrooms, ending a near-total ban that goes back to the dawn of television.
The case of the man accused of killing two young girls in Delphi promises to be the highest profile trial Indiana has seen in at least a decade.
“We have 2.8 million cases pending in Indiana courts right now and those cases involve every facet of Hoosier life,” Rush told WRTV during a recent interview at the Indiana Supreme Court’s Law Library. “For people to trust the courts, I think they need to know what's going on in the courtrooms.”For Daniel Byron, this change is the culmination of 30 years worth of work.
Marion County Criminal Court Judge Thomas J. Faulconer made national headlines when he allowed television cameras to film the sensational murder trial. The closely watched trial captivated the public for its salacious testimony involving a wealthy victim and an illicit affair. "At the time I said 'I think I'm 50 years ahead of my time,'" Wilson, 87, said during an interview at his Brown County home.
"They were kind of disruptive in terms of the cameraman by our defense table and I got into it with the cameraman about being a little obtrusive," Voyles recalled. "They know their communities, they know their justice partners, they know their prosecutors, they know their attorneys, public defenders, and a lot of times they know the families," Chief Justice Rush said."We are able to balance out those ."
"The judicial branch is the least understood branch of government," Chief Justice Rush said,."And here you've got millions of Hoosiers counting on it for justice every year in Indiana. So why not pull the curtains out and say, 'OK, this is what we're doing and this is why we're doing it.' The sky is not going to fall, since there are safeguards in place.
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