It talks about some of the good things — like journalists (the real kind) getting permission to
tweet during trials.
The defendant in the Arkansas case, the building materials company Stoam Holdings, filed a motion for a new trial last week claiming that juror Jonathan Powell posted eight
tweets during the trial using his cell phone.
Initially, the judge banned
tweeting during the trial from anywhere in the Middlesex Superior Courthouse in Woburn, not just from within the courtroom.
Not exact matches
«Apple will make sure that artists are paid,» Cue
tweeted, continuing: «Apple Music will pay artists for streaming even
during customers» free
trial period.
Next, he
tweeted that a second female journalist covering the
trial «caught my eye several times
during this process.
The most famous social media arrest came
during the «Twitter joke
trial», when Paul Chambers was convicted of using a «public electronic communication network» to send a «message of menacing character» when he
tweeted:
The Crown attorney Darcy MacPherson is quoted as saying he used printouts of a reporter's
tweets to augment his notes
during the
trial as a second, objective account.
The Michigan Supreme Court has laid the hammer down on gadget - happy jurors in banning all electronic communications by jurors
during trial, including
tweets on Twitter, text messages and Google searches.
According to Pidgeon, journalists were permitted to send text messages and
tweets using their cell phones and iPads in the courtroom last spring
during the murder
trial in Quebec City of former appea court judge Jacques Delisle, who was convicted of the premeditated murder of his wife (a decision now under appeal).
The first «twibel» case is going to
trial, thanks to Courtney Love's 2010
tweet accusing her lawyer of being «bought off»
during a legal tussle with the managers of dead husband Kurt Cobain's estate.