Miscellaneous

For the Defense

By Anne Skove, Esq.

To thine cell phone be true!

Like a Richard Stern syllabus, the Manhattan federal courthouse is introducing modernity.

See Now, Cellphones for the Defense, Too, John Eligon, NY Times City Room blog (February 19, 2010).

Why do we care? Because the trend thus far in most courts has been to collect all electronics at the door, as though those entering were fourth-graders who stayed up too late playing DS. (Ha, you thought you were too smart for your mom!) Now, the Blackberries and iPods are being seen as tools for working people.

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on February 21, 2010 (boomark / email).