The First Amendment grants us all access to court proceedings... that is in most cases. Last week's courtroom proceedings was no exception. The national coverage presented a handful of complications that news media outlets needed to work out with the court's lead and approval. In this case and rightly so, the courts didn't want the news media to take up huge spaces blocking hallway access. So it was worked out that 5 photographers would be granted access to the court arraignment proceedings, and the remaining 6 still photographers and 22 television cameras, two-dozen reporters and more than an handful of ENG technicians would set up in an empty courtroom for the press conference that would immediately follow the court proceedings. This assembly of tripods was about two-thirds of those who would eventually setup for the presser.
Nelvin C. Cepeda
Photo used by permission of The San Diego Union-Tribune
Press Conference
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