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Vaughn Walker Defends Use of Prop 8 Trial Video Clip

-Los Angeles Times, April 20, 2011 by Maura Dolan
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0420-judge-walker-20110420,0,2466137.story

The federal judge who presided over the Proposition 8 trial is under fire from Christian conservatives for showing a three-minute videotape of the trial on the lecture circuit…. “The basic point of the presentations is that videos or films of actual trials are more interesting, informative, compelling and, of course, realistic than reenactments or fictionalized accounts,” wrote Walker.

-San Jose Mercury News, April 25, 2011 by Howard Mintz
http://www.mercurynews.com/samesexmarriage/ci_17927447?nclick_check=1

In recent court papers, Prop. 8 lawyers also targeted Walker for showing a video clip of the trial at a lecture in Arizona in February, asking a federal appeals court to order him to return the video because it was supposed to remain under seal.


Vaughn Walker Explains Use of Prop. 8 Trial Video Clip

KQED-FM, April 15, 2011 by Scott Shafer
http://bit.ly/g3HocT

Walker wrote that he decided to use the actual clip because he thought it would be “permissable and appropriate.” He acknowledges that he used the same clip at Federal Bar Association meeting in Riverside last month and in a law class he’s teaching at UC Berkeley…. “If the court believes that my possession of the videos as part of my judicial papers is inappropriate, I shall, of course, abide by that or any other directive the court makes,” Walker writes.