MN Advisory Comm Exhibits 1-18 - Minnesota Judicial Branch

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(5) The penumbra of a fair trial, civil or
criminal, spawns a corollary public right
to the limited extent that openness is
necessary to insure the integrity of the
process. Informational access is designed
to protect the public interest in a trial
free from chicanery or skulduggery.
(6) The nexus of openness with fairness and
honesty in trials is sufficiently protected
by access guaranteed to any member of the
public interested enough to attend, to the
representatives of all media without cameras
or microphones and, finally and especially, by
a verbatim transcript.
(7) The fundamental interest of the public in the
fairness of trials is exemplified in the con-
stitutional and statutoryprovisions which both
regulate and guarantee Due Process of law.
Trial procedures must be designed to reflect the
guarantees.
(8) To the degree that a trial educates the public
at all, the learning is a by-product not an
objective.
(9) The service of theatricality in trials is not
the office of courts.