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.
Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532, 561 (1965) (Warren, C. J., concurring)
Very nicely put; this statement encapsulates some of the solemnity of our rule of law, system of laws, and, indeed, structure of ordered liberty.
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You would think this is a much bigger problem in Rhode Island or Connecticut than in Utah or California.
Posted by Dave
How very true, which is why there is little or no Utah law on it.
Posted by john fowles–>