Reply With QuoteI think they are trying to get as much money from kobe as they can. milking him. what they think that this cause is not going to be public?
August 23, 2003
Defense asks to bar cameras from courtroom
by Randy Wyrick
Kobe Bryant's attorneys on Friday asked that no cameras be allowed in the courtroom for Bryant's preliminary hearing Oct. 9.
Harold Haddon and Pamela Mackey filed a motion asking Eagle County Court Judge Fred Gannett to bar cameras in his courtroom for Bryant's preliminary hearing.
Court TV has asked to provide video photography during the preliminary hearing, and the Denver Post has asked that it be allowed to provide still photography.
Gannett allowed video and still photography during Bryant's Aug. 6 arraignment, and also during hearings to unseal records relating to the criminal investigation and the dispatch records.
In their request, Haddon and Mackey asserted that Colorado law expressly prohibits expanded media coverage at preliminary hearings.
"The requests for expanded media coverage must all be denied," they wrote about Canon 3A in Friday's motion. "It provides that, notwithstanding any authorization to conduct expanded media coverage of a proceeding, there shall be no expanded media coverage of pretrial hearings in criminal cases, except advisements and arraignments."
Because preliminary hearings are by definition "pretrial hearings," expanded media coverage of preliminary hearings is forbidden, they wrote.
They also asserted that Court TV's request for a television camera in the courtroom is not supported by either fact or law.
"The burden of proving the propriety of expanded media coverage of the trial itself falls upon the media, not the accused," wrote Haddon and Mackey. "Mr. Bryant's fundamental right to a fair trial also supports a presumption against expanded media coverage of all proceedings and placing the burden of proving the appropriateness of expanded media coverage on those who want it.
"This court should deny the requests for expanded media coverage at the preliminary hearing."
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I think they are trying to get as much money from kobe as they can. milking him. what they think that this cause is not going to be public?
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