1989-03-24 Comments of Star Tribune.pdf - Minnesota Judicial Branch

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I- _. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Tom Farrell January 13, 1989 517/373-0129 MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT APPROVES WIDER MEDIA ACCESS TO ALL STATE COURTS LANSING ---The Michigan Supreme Court today adopted an order thatwillallow journalists to use cameras and tape recorders in all Michigan courts on a permanent basis. The state's highest court voted unanimously to adop; guidelines similar to those under which cameras and tape recorders have been permitted in nearly all of the state's trial and appellate courts on an experimental basis. The Administrative Order, entered today, which will be effective March 1, provides for,uniform rules for 241 trial courts in all 83 counties. When the one-year experiment began on Feb. 1, 1988, either party in civil and criminal cases could deny coverage by filing an objection with the judge. In June of 1988, . counties---,Grand the Michigan Supreme Court modified the rules for courts in five Traverse, Ingham, Marquette, Oakland and Wexford---so that only the judge could deny or limit coverage by cameras and tape recorders. The Michigan Supreme Court adopted a recommendation by its Cameras in the Courtroom Committee which voted on Nov. 22 to ask the Court to make permanent in all courts the experiment that has been underway in the five counties since last June. The rule adopted today applies only to state courts. Federal courts, where cameras and tape recorders are prohibited, are not covered by court rules adopted by the Michigan Supreme Court. Cameras have been permitted in all Michigan trial courts except. for the Juvenile Division of Probate Courts during the one-year experimentai program that began last Feb. 1.. The Michigan Supreme Court adopted a second order today rescinding effective March 1 a Probate Court rule prohibiting the use of cameras and tape recorders in Juvenile Courts. The Michigan Supreme Court took up the issue of cameras in the courtroom in 1987 after it received a recommendation from the Citizens' Commission to Improve Michigan Courts urging approval of a pilot program to permit cameras in the courtroom. Earlier, the State Bar Representative Assembly recommended a one- year experiment of electronic coverage of trial courts and TV coverage of appellate courts. In May of 1987, the Supreme Court published for comment a proposed order permitting electronic coverage of proceedings in state courts on a one-year experimental basis. (OVER)
c After reviewing the comments made by television and radio stations, judges, attorneys, court administrators and the general public, the Court approved an order on Aug. 26, 1987, to permit cameras and recorders in courtrooms on a one- year trial basis. The guidelines approved today are similar to those in effect for the past year. They prohibit coverage of the jury selection process and leave to the discretion of the trial judge any decision to "terminate, suspend, limit or exclude" coverage of a court proceeding. Also contained in the guideline are rules with regard to media equipment, lights, number of media personnel, types of cameras, position of equipment operators and movement within the courtroom. A request to use 'electronic equipment to cover a trial must be made in writing by the news media at least three days before the trial starts. -O- Editors: The text of the camera in the courtroom order is attached. -MSC-
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APPENDIX SURVET SUMARY TABLE OF CA?
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Result D: The presence of the elect
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Table 3 To what extend did the pres
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Not at All Slightly Moderately Very
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1. Too much pretrial publicity. Tab
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Table 12 To what extent did the pre
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C. Attorney Only: Questions and Com
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Table 9 TO what extent were court p
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12. Believe it to be benficial. 13.
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5. The positioning of the cameras i
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L L Mailinq: SUMMARY OF EVALUATION
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PHYSICAL DISRUPTION CLASSIFICATION
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: I : . SELECTIVE COVERAGE Accordin
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VI. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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0 The media's predominant interest
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at the forefront of the "cameras in
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Clearly, the number of "uneventful"
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. It is possible that when measured
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The issues involved in the decision
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‘an 306 Townsend Street Lansing,
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