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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: small correction
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 17:47:02 EST
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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.

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