Claim
Claim 835
Dozens of cameramen staked out the Tyler courtroom during the preliminary hearing, even though live coverage was more limited during the trial itself.
- Statement
- Dozens of cameramen staked out the Tyler courtroom during the preliminary hearing, even though live coverage was more limited during the trial itself.
- Field
- scope_of_action
- Value
- Cameras at the pretrial hearing
- Source
- Estes v. Texas (1965)
- Publisher
- The First Amendment Encyclopedia, Middle Tennessee State University
- Method
- outlet report
- Checked
- 2026-09-26
- Confidence
- medium
- Status
- current
- Source date
- 2023-08-06
Quotation from the source
Although live coverage was limited during the trial itself, the opening days of the preliminary hearing had developed into a circus atmosphere as dozens of cameramen staked out the courtroom.