regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) (02/20/85)
Subject: Re: Should child witnesses testify by TV? From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) >Your memory is badly incorrect. The case you are talking about is the >notorious McMartin case. The facts are that Mr. T *offered* to be there to >comfort the children; he was TURNED DOWN by the judge because she felt it >would lend too much of a Hollywood atmosphere to the hearing. Child >psychologists are quite capable of handling this sort of issue, and we have >lots (too many?) of them. I believe that Mr. T was there on the first day of the hearings, with the consent of the judge. He has not been there throughout the entire proceedings. She compromised, which is always a good sign in a judge. .