Courtroom video feed shut down
Posted Sep18, 2007 at 01:41 PM
The video feed for the local media pool is shut down for the day while attorneys question the latest panel of three potential jurors.
This is the first panel after the lunch break. No one from the previous panel was selected.
Earlier in the day, Judge Ray Grubbs asked WSLS Channel 10 reporter Rosa Duarte to halt the video she was taking. Duarte told reporters the court was worried about the potential to identify jurors.
No officials in the courtroom would comment on the decision.
Duarte was trying to get background shots of the courtroom while jurors were not in the room. No photographs, video or audio of the jurors or their conversations is permitted to be public.
A photographer from the Roanoke Times still is in the courtroom, but is not taking photos while jurors are in the room.
On Monday, a videographer was permitted to shoot, but he also did not take footage of the jurors.
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