I mostly agree with the points made in this post. There may have been reasons unknown to us to shield TS.
I do not have much direct court room experience (other than several sessions of jury duty) but whether there were unknown reasons or not, I personally didn't find the shielding of TS by her attorney weird or unusual. So that's the point at which I may disagree with
@10ofRods.
Here's why: In all the televised trials I've watched (I know yesterday wasn't a trial) I have never seen a situation where the camera was seemingly so close to a defendant and so focused on her/him. The court room camera may not have been physically close to TS, but the ONLY close-ups of people we got were of TS and the blonde defense attorney. We saw faces of other people--- the family, the officer, the judge, the DA and his team, the other defense attorney....but no other extreme close-ups that I recall. (Could have missed them while I strained to hear the soft audio though.) But we were even given an extreme close-ups of TS's handcuffs! I found that kind of weird and it felt very intrusive to me.
When I've watched other televised trials, I didn't feel like an intruder. I felt like an observer. Yes, I saw the defendant's face at various points, but the camera wasn't overly-focused on him/her.
JMO