As I sit here in my office researching minutia regarding the (in?)ability of a court in a civil action to subpoena an out-of-state party witness to testify at trial, I have come across this nice tidbit from Chief Justice Warren:
The courtroom in Anglo-American jurisprudence is more than a location with seats for a judge, jury, witnesses, defendant, prosecutor, defense counsel and public observers; the setting that the courtroom provides is itself an important element in the constitutional conception of trial, contributing a dignity essential to the “integrity of the trial” process.