FILE PATHEXPLORE DETROIT/DETROIT PRESS
THE DETROIT PRESS · DETROIT PUBLIC RECORD

COURTS & JUSTICE.

Court reporting adds another layer to the newspaper record: hearings, testimony, judges, prosecutors, charges, verdicts, sentencing, and the movement of a criminal matter through Detroit's justice system.

Wayne County Court House [Wayne County Building], Detroit, Mich.
REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Wayne County Building in Detroit, photographed between 1902 and 1910.
Source: Detroit Publishing Co. / source record · No known restrictions on publication
WHY IT MATTERS

What the courtroom page can and cannot prove.

Court reporting is useful for chronology and public framing, but it is compared with the underlying legal record whenever that record survives.

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