After first ruling that reporters covering the former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky’s child abuse trial could tweet from within the courtroom so long as there were no verbatim quotes, the trial judge took the path of least resistance and banned all live testing, tweeting and blogging.
The judge made his new ruling after news organizations said reporters could not tweet accurately without direct quotes. -db
From NPR, June 4, 2012, by Mark Nootbaar.