Wichita ? Cameras will be allowed in the courtroom during proceedings against a man charged with plotting with two others to kill the 14-year-old Wichita girl he allegedly impregnated, Sedgwick County District Judge David Kennedy ruled Friday.

The Kansas Death Penalty Defense Unit had requested a ban on cameras in court. Kennedy ruled the defense motion was too broad but left open the door for more specific requests to exclude cameras in the future.

Defense attorneys Tim Frieden and Jeff Wicks of the Kansas Death Penalty Defense Unit sought to exclude cameras on behalf of Elgin R.J. “Ray Ray” Robinson Jr., who is charged, along with two others, with capital murder in the death of Chelsea Brooks.

The body of Brooks, who recently graduated from a Wichita middle school, was found last month in a shallow grave in neighboring Butler County. She had been strangled, and three men, including the one alleged to have made her pregnant, are charged in what is described as a contract killing.

Robinson, 20, is also charged with three counts of sexual intercourse with a child younger than 14 and one of violating a protective order that the girl’s mother obtained for her in February.

Charged with Robinson are Theodore Burnett, 49, and Everett Le Gentry, 17, a juvenile whom prosecutors want to try as an adult.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Kim Parker told Kennedy that the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office did not oppose cameras being allowed during court proceedings.

Attorney William Tretbar, who represented The Wichita Eagle and television stations KWCH and KAKE, argued against the motion to exclude cameras.

Kennedy ruled that the presence of cameras would not interfere with Robinson’s right to a fair trial, as long as the defendant was not shown in visible restraints. Cameras were in the courtroom for Friday’s hearing on the motion.

Preliminary hearings are set for Robinson and Burnett for Aug. 3, while Gentry faces a motion that day to prosecute him as an adult.