Live coverage boosts access to federal courtrooms
Order in the court, please, including you tweeter.
In a victory for news technology in federal courts, a judge is allowing a reporter to use the microblogging service Twitter to provide constant updates from a racketeering gang trial this week.
It’s not the first time online streaming has been allowed in courtrooms, but the practice is still rare in the federal system, especially in criminal cases.
A couple of lawyers voiced concern about the possibility that a juror might visit the online site to read the posts from Ron Sylvester, a reporter for the Wichita Eagle, but U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten said jurors are always told to avoid newspaper, broadcast and online reports.
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