The Metropolitan Police Department will alter the way it conducts criminal identification lineups and local courts will change how they handle criminal informants as measures to decrease the number of wrongful convictions.

The District’s top jurist is getting another four years on the bench, D.C. Courts announced today. Lee Satterfield, the chief judge of D.C. Superior Court, was reappointed to the post today.

The complaints raised last week by a group of recent grand jury members that their five-week civic duties left them unfairly severed from the outside world did not take long to reach the attention of D.C.’s judiciary.

Even though they don’t allow Twitter in the courtroom, D.C.’s top judges will use the social-networking service to answer questions from the public next week.

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.