When all else fails, criminal defense lawyers often turn to the humanness of their clients to evoke jurors’ empathy at trial. But if their clients are turned into two-dimensional figures composed of light particles on a television screen, many things would be lost, not the least of which might be the cases in question.
That was a major concern raised by members of the defense bar at a public hearing held earlier today on proposed amendments to Superior Court rules to allow teleconferencing during civil, family and criminal cases. Under the proposed rule changes, defendants would have to consent to their attending a court hearing remotely through use of teleconferencing technology.
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