Lance Ito Judge Quotations

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

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

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