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By Sarena Straus, Esq.

First Amendment Protections and the CourtOn Friday, on ?The Live Desk with Martha MacCullum,? I was a member of the ?A-List?, a panel of four that discusses current issues in the news. One of the issues that we covered involved a Nebraska judge that prohibited the use of certain words during a rape trial; specifically, "victim," "assailant", "sexual assault", "rape" and "sexual assault kit". As a result of his ruling, a protest took place outside the courthouse with people wearing tape over their mouths with some of the prohibited words written across it. The victim has since also gone public about this matter. Due to all of the publicity, the judge declared a mistrial in his own case (a prior trial on the same case with the same bans resulted in a hung jury)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prosecutor Postscript on July 16, 2007 (boomark / email).