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Saturday, January 15, 2005
Ind. Courts - Ohio lower court hopping into video online trend
"Ohio lower court hopping into video online trend" is the headline to this story today in the Akron Ohio Beacon Journal. Some quotes:
CLEVELAND - An Ohio county judge is posting online video of people being sentenced for robbery, rape and other crimes, an uncommon step for a trial court.Common Pleas Judge James L. Kimbler set up his personal Sony digital camcorder in August in northeast Ohio's Medina County. The prosecutor, defense lawyer and defendant can be seen and heard. The judge is heard but not seen. "It's all public record anyway," Kimbler said. "If the general public and law students know what we do it increases their understanding."
Some state Supreme Courts, including those in Florida, Indiana and Ohio, have shown arguments between attorneys on the Web. The trend is slow to arrive at local or regional courts, which typically handle more cases. * * *
Kimbler, an Ohio county judge for eight years, broadcasts hearings and sentences on local public access television, but not trials. He posts only sentencings on the Web site.
Kimbler is one of four judges in Medina County, 25 miles southwest of Cleveland, and typically presides over theft, robbery, assault, rape, drug dealing and murder cases. He plans to post most of his sentencings, which he guessed would involve number about 150 to 200 cases over a year.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 15, 2005 04:13 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts