Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Barnes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 14, 2012PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBotsford, J.
On May 2, 2011, as part of a pilot project it has named “OpenCourt,” WBUR-FM, a National Public Radio station in Boston, began to broadcast live by “streaming” over the Internet video and audio recordings of certain proceedings taking place in the Quincy Division of the District Court Department (Quincy District Court). We consider here three petitions for relief under G. L. c. 211, § 3, that relate to the OpenCourt project and were reported to this court by a single justice. Each petition challenges one or more orders of a judge in the Quincy District Court concerning the broadcasts and…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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