1.   But legal experts questioned whether Ito could justify reversing an earlier order to permit cameras in court during the Simpson trial.

2.   Cameras will be permitted in the courtroom only for opening and closing statements and the verdict.

3.   Cameras are not permitted in British courtrooms, although one was allowed several months ago inside a courtroom in Scotland as an experiment.

4.   In September, the Judicial Conference ended a three-year pilot program that had permitted cameras in six federal trial courts and two appellate courts.

5.   In this situation, however, the very act of permitting television cameras for general public broadcast would make a cruel and unusual spectacle of the legally mandated sentence.

6.   In voting against permitting cameras in federal courts, the judicial conference cited concerns that some witnesses and jurors had been intimidated by the presence of cameras.

7.   It was still uncertain at press time if cameras would be permitted inside that courtroom.

8.   Nonetheless Court TV has asked the trial judge, Leonie Brinkema, to permit a camera in the courtroom.

9.   One big difference in the Kaczynski trial is that cameras are not permitted in federal courts.

10.   Still cameras are permitted if no flash or lights are used.