McMartin Case TV Ruling Upheld
From a Times Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO — The state Supreme Court on Thursday let stand a lower-court ruling that will require a judge hearing the McMartin Pre-School molestation case to determine whether five child witnesses can testify over closed-circuit television.
The court refused to hear a challenge to a recently enacted law that allows children to testify during preliminary hearings via television in cases where they would face extreme trauma by testifying in front of defendants.
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