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Order in the e-Court!
theodp writes "Every word spoken in the e-Courtroom where Branden Basham is on trial for his life appears immediately before the judge on a computer screen. There's a flat-screen monitor between every two seats in the jury box, a witness-box monitor with touch-screen features, and large-screen monitors for public viewing. Lawyers say e-Courtrooms help reduce trial time by making evidence display and tracking documents more efficient. 'It made the Chadrick Fulks' case three to five days shorter,' said an Assistant U.S. Attorney, referring to Basham's co-defendant, who plead guilty and was sentenced to death."
...referring to Basham's co-defendant, who plead guilty and was sentenced to death
A lot of murderers go free or get convicted of lesser crimes on some technicality. Don't prosecutors realize that a greater overall justice will be served if criminals are encouraged to confess in exchange for a small favor, like no death penalty and a 30 year maximum sentence unless there is an evidence and maybe let the see the sunshine as old men/women?
Sorry, I couldn't be bothered to read the article, so I'll just spew out some prejudiced nonsense.
So, 'every word appears on a screen...' - I assume this means speech recognition software. I remember last I tried that on; it was very good. When I spoke into the microphone it would interpret my words and write them into a document. The problem was, I was sitting in a wicker work chair, and each time I moved a little, it generated a surprisng amount of text, you would be surprised to learn what that chair had on its mind. And it didn't help much either that my wife was speaking loudly with her friend in the next room.