But doesn't the judge give limiting instruction?
So you would concede that, as in your own words, the Inquirer did do some real public service in some lines?
When you said his picture was posted, amplify what you meant by that.
And was that the reason he tried to burn down the house?
There have to be consequences and the consequences have to be significant in order for people to get the message.
We've got to find a way to do something to make people feel safe and secure if they do step forward and provide information.
I think an appointment system might be better for the average person going to vote. But no system is perfect.
We're going to take a look, before we're finished on these hearings, at the Federal Witness/Victim Protection program.
How about on the issue of the underlying causes of crime, the issues of education, poverty, housing, job training?
How many of you think that to cooperate with police and report a crime is something that you ought to do?
Thank you very much.
Have we made any improvements in the intensity of the big-city crime problem?
Criminal trials cannot proceed unless there are witnesses, and if witnesses are subject to intimidation or subject to the ultimate eliminati...
Your son was shot 12 times?
Thank you very much, Mr. Coard.
Well, thank you for providing that testimony, Mrs. Clowden.
Why did the boy want to burn down your house?
Another course is to have Federal legislation which would make it a Federal crime to intimidate a State court witness.