Background
In Maryland, Sandra Craig, was tried for several charges of sexual abuse involving a six-year-old child. Before the trial, the court wanted the Maryland statutory procedure obtained allowing a judge to receive, by one-way closed circuit television, the testimony of the alleged child abuse victim. Only after determining that the child's courtroom testimony would result in serious emotional distress that he or she could not reasonably communicate. If the procedure is invoked, the child, prosecutor, and defense counsel move to another room, where the child is examined and cross-examined; the judge, jury, and the defendant remain in the courtroom, where the testimony is displayed. Craig claimed that allowing the victim of the alleged
In Maryland, Sandra Craig, was tried for several charges of sexual abuse involving a six-year-old child. Before the trial, the court wanted the Maryland statutory procedure obtained allowing a judge to receive, by one-way closed circuit television, the testimony of the alleged child abuse victim. Only after determining that the child's courtroom testimony would result in serious emotional distress that he or she could not reasonably communicate. If the procedure is invoked, the child, prosecutor, and defense counsel move to another room, where the child is examined and cross-examined; the judge, jury, and the defendant remain in the courtroom, where the testimony is displayed. Craig claimed that allowing the victim of the alleged