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Should Justice Ever Be Invisible?
Dafydd ab Hugh

Associated Press (that exemplar of unbiased reportage) has an interesting article, carried by Fox News, raising (and utterly failing to analyze) an intriguing issue: under what circumstances should court proceedings be secret? For how long? How does one balance the defendant's rights to privacy, his Sixth Amendment right to a "speedy and public trial," and the First Amendment right of news agencies to investigate plea bargains?

First, let's set the stage:

[Read on here.]

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Posted by Bill Faith on March 6, 2006 at 03:07 AM | Permalink

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