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Apr 17, 2012

#Justice: Should You Be Able to Tweet from Court?

If you head down to D.C. Superior Court on any given weekday, you can walk into a courtroom, watch a trial and take as many notes as you want. But if you pull out your smart phone and start tweeting away, a U.S. Marshal will likely approach and remind you that those 140-character updates are verboten, as is any type of electronic recording.

 
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