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State Objects to Cameras at Trial
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois' attorney general and state prosecutors are objecting to one of the first efforts to allow cameras in a courtroom, the upcoming case of an alleged serial killer.

Advocates of allowing television cameras and photographers inside state courtrooms view Nicholas Sheley's trial in March as a test of the Illinois Supreme Court's recently announced experiment with the practice.

But in a Friday court filing, Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office and Whiteside County State's Attorney Gary Spencer call for cameras to be barred from Sheley's trial and pretrial hearings.

It says cameras will interfere with Sheley's right to a fair trial and make it harder to pick an impartial jury in the next case against him.

Sheley is accused of killing eight people in Illinois and Missouri in 2008.

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