Indeed, the videocam is probably the last best hope for the law of contract in this country. Put it on tape, and, once again, the law may come to respect the idea that a deal is a deal. The picture may save you a thousand words of courtroom explaining later on. At the very least, more videocams will mean less doubt, and therefore fewer lawsuits, and therefore fewer juries. Countless obstetricians, surgeons and drug companies have seen their careers or enterprises burned to the ground because juries drew silly lines between assault and the alternatives.
Juries do sometimes get confused about such things.
Next time a trial lawyer publicly denies that fact, ask him to explain what happened in Simi Valley. So deploy those cameras in your businesses and workplaces, in your patrol cars, offices and operating theaters. Despite Simi Valley, the cameras could save your legal neck. Videocams promise to push us back toward a rule of law that accepts, once again, the liberty-defining differences between consent and coercion.