It's nice that our courts are going 21st century hi-tech:
Now, a $250,000 project to outfit each of the four “Grand Courtrooms” on the courthouse's third floor with plasma video screens, digital sound, digital recording, telestrators and other gadgets designed to make trials and proceedings run faster and smoother is on the cusp of being complete.
But those are just technological innovations that will speed up the process, which will still depend on all those old-fashioned things like presumption of innocence, burden of proof, reasonable doubt and so on. Those fundamentals are a mystery to most Americans, so the concept of a "public trial" does not mean what it could today, given all the avaialable technology. There need to be cameras in every Indiana courtroom, not just the few permitted under the state Supreme Court's current experiment.
