I want to understand this, because I understand it the same way Mr. Brock does. Were this to be limited to a trial judge, it would become redundant. The issue here is that there would be an expansion to, potentially, pretrial judges with very limited evidentiary basis.
What I would understand is that the accused could then seek victims' private information at an earlier stage from somebody who doesn't even have the evidentiary basis to determine that. There may have been an inadvertent way of drafting it that has actually created a privacy issue for the victim in this amendment.
Would I be right in that?
