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TEXAS HOLDS NATION’S FIRST VIRTUAL CRIMINAL TRIAL

August 19, 2020 - 05:00
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TEXAS HOLDS NATION’S FIRST VIRTUAL CRIMINAL TRIAL

A Texan’s speeding ticket put her in the legal history books last week. To combat the backlog in criminal cases created by the pandemic, a Travis County justice of the peace conducted the nation’s first virtual criminal trial. The case was livestreamed on YouTube, and the jurors deliberated in a private Zoom room. Legal experts debated whether trial by Zoom properly balanced constitutional concerns such as the right to a speedy trial and the right to confront witnesses. The test case? A nurse’s misdemeanor ticket for speeding in a construction zone. The jury found the nurse, Calli Kornblau, guilty of speeding but acquitted ...

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