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• 13 Jun 09
  

  Patrick O'Keefe
  • telephonic hearing held Monday in the Jammie Thomas case
  • Well, Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson -- who is an unofficial member of the Thomas defense team -- dialed in as well. But he did so not as a member of the Thomas team, but in his capacity as Joel Tenenbaum's counsel of record.
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  • • And Nesson, as he has tried to do repeatedly before, recorded the proceedings -- at least until Judge Davis told him to stop (after plaintiffs' counsel Timothy Reynolds alerted the court to the possibility that Nesson might be recording).
    • (That "problem" is Mass. Gen. L. ch. 272 § 99, which makes it a felony punishable by five years in state prison to record a telephone conversation without the consent of all participants, or to "disclose" that recording. I don't see any exception that allows you to record until someone tells you to knock it off.)
    • For the record, District of Minnesota Local Rule 83.2(e) clearly bans use of "sound recording devices" in the courtroom.
      
      [Final sentence corrected to make clear that recording devices "may be brought into the courthouse, but must be inoperative and unobtrusive at all times they are in a courtroom."]
• 10 Jun 09
  

  Jonathan Bailey

  115 tenenbaum nesson thomas webcast

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