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Illinois' cameras in courts pilot program is still waiting for its big test. Back in January, the state Supreme Court announced it would allow local circuits to seek having cameras and microphones present during trial proceedings. Joe Tybor is a spokesman for the Illinois Supreme Court. He says when they launched the effort, they were concerned about two things: “One, that they're really not be any disruption to an orderly trial process and two, that the presence of cameras during a trial just does not put at risk the rights of the defendant to a due process and a fair trial proceeding,” says Tybor.
Tybor says so far, those issues have not come up in the judicial circuits participating in the program. But Tybor says they'll get a good sense next month of the how the program will work under a high profile case. Cameras will be allowed during Nicolas Sheley's murder trial in Whiteside County.
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