Law: Cameras in the Courtroom

Florida 's Bundy case tests the fairness of televising trials

Courtroom drama buffs did not have to settle for Perry Mason reruns last week. In dozens of cities, they could turn on the nightly news and see the high spots of a real trial that was far more bizarre than anything Hollywood has ever put on prime time.

Leading his own defense was Theodore Robert Bundy, the handsome former Boy Scout, Mr. Up-and-Coming Republican" and model student charged with murdering two coeds at a Floriida State University sorority house and suspected of the murders of...

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