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Televised ?Show Trial? on Proposition 8?

By Paul Cassell

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Over at NRO, Ed Whelan has been following some bizarre manuevering by the federal district court judge in the Northern District of California who apparently is trying to have a televised ?show trial? regarding Proposition 8.

Without getting into the merits of Proposition 8 or the legal challenges to it, I agree with Whelan that it seems highly unusual for a judge to authorize televised proceedings for this particular case as part of some new ?pilot? project to see how televised proceedings work. Surely if there were going to be a test run of a new idea, it should be in a more run-of-the-mill case rather than this particular highly controversial one. Moreover, it does appear that public comment process has been completely short-circuited.

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Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).