Local Rule LCrR53.10: Subjects of Special Order

LCrR53.10 Subjects of Special Order Such a special order may be addressed to some or all of the following subjects:

A. A proscription of extrajudicial statements by participants in the trial, including lawyers, parties, witnesses, jurors, and court officials, that might divulge prejudicial matter not of public record in the case;

B. Specific directives regarding the clearing of entrances to the hallways in the courthouse and respecting the management of the jury and witnesses during the course of the trial to avoid their mingling with or being in the proximity of reporters, photographers, parties, lawyers, and others, both in entering and leaving the courtroom and courthouse, and during recesses in the trial;

C. A specific direction that the jurors refrain from reading, listening to, or watching news reports concerning the case, and that they similarly refrain from discussing the case with anyone, or with one another, during the trial and from communicating with others in any manner during their deliberations;

D. Sequestration of the jury on motion of either party or of the court without disclosure of the identity of the movant;

E. Direction that the names and addresses of jurors or prospective jurors not be publicly released except as required by statute, and that no photographs be taken or sketch made of any juror within the environs of the court;

F. Insulation of witnesses from news interviews during the trial period;

G. Specific provisions regarding the seating of spectators and representatives of news-media, including:

1. An order that no member of the public or news-media representative be at any time permitted within the bar railing;

2. The allocation of seats to news-media representatives in cases where there is an excess of requests over the number of seats available, taking into account any pooling arrangement that may have been agreed to among the news-media representatives.