People v. Kopp

OPINION OF THE COURT

Michael L. D’Amico, J.

The defendant, James Kopp, is charged under Indictment No. 98-2555-S01 with two counts of murder in the second degree. It is alleged that the defendant, on October 23, 1998, caused the death of Dr. Barnett Slepian by shooting him.

There has been considerable interest by the media in this case and numerous applications for audio-visual coverage have been made to this court. There is no mechanism under current New York law to entertain those applications, other than part 131 of the Rules of the Chief Administrator of the Courts (22 NYCRR). On its face…