Courtroom Transparency Quotes

I don’t see any problem with having proceedings televised. I think it would be good for the public.

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

I think cameras should be in the courtroom, but they need to be managed properly. You need a judge to hold the line.

People have a fundamental right to information about the government, but the right to justice trumps that. Cameras in the courtroom seem to affect behavior.

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

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

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.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

If we start exposing what gets said in a grand jury, you won't get anybody to testify.

Cameras should be the norm everywhere. It should be in every courtroom so that the proceedings are taken down and recorded just like stenography.