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SJC asked to limit broadcasts

WBUR defends right to show hearings

By John R. Ellement

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 09, 2011

Two attorneys yesterday asked the Supreme Judicial Court to step in and impose restrictions on the WBUR-FM project that broadcasts some Quincy District Court hearings over the Internet. A prosecutor said that if the SJC allows opencourt.us to post a hearing involving alleged human trafficker Norman S. Barnes, they will be revictimizing his alleged victim, a teenaged girl. But WBUR argued that it has a First Amendment right to post to the Internet, the same as other media outlets.

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