CHAPTER 8.  SPECIAL AUTHORITY OF COURTS;

PROTECTED PERSONS; VIDEOTAPING;

CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION

Art. 322.  Purpose

The purpose of this Chapter is to provide further protection for protected persons who are witnesses to or victims of a crime and to permit the trial concerning such crime to proceed with a minimum of additional intrusion into the lives of such protected persons.  To effect this purpose, the need for a special exception to the hearsay rule allowing receipt of videotaped statements of the protected person's account and the need for closed-circuit television for transmitting certain protected person's testimony is recognized.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2004, No. 241, §2.