The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals recently decided 6-3 that a woman must get a new murder trial because the courtroom was so full during jury selection that the criminal defendant’s friends and family couldn’t observe the proceeding.
“There are readily available alternatives to fix these problems,” wrote Judge Paul Womack in the majority opinion in Cameron v. Texas. “In such situations, a trial court should move to a bigger courtroom or split the panel in half.”
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