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Bain call
By Steven | March 25, 2009
Can’t say I understand why Justice Pankhurst refused to allow the media to broadcast David Bain’s telephone call from the day of all the killings. We could hear reporters describing what he said. The jurors can’t be prejudiced by a repetition of evidence they’ve already heard. I can accept that there are problems allowing live streaming of the whole trial if particular witnesses to be called later are not supposed to hear the evidence of earlier witnesses (so that their evidence will be independent) … but that doesn’t seem to apply here.
Where’s the harm? More to the point, where’s the demonstrable justification for limiting freedom of expression?
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