Judge smacks down TV station for putting jury members at risk

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Judge John Torrence, who oversees Jackson County's Division 14, has written a blistering letter to KCTV over a report aired last week on the Elijah Jones murder trial. There were threats made against several people connected to the case, the judge writes, including the jury.

So, Torrence writes, he's furious that KCTV reportedly showed jurors walking to their cars after the trial.

You placed their lives and welfare in jeopardy and you did so unethically, recklessly and unnecessarily. You could easily have reported the story without showing the video of the jurors. If the directors and producers at Channel 5 weren’t the shameless bottom-feeding predators of the local electronic media that they are, they would be ashamed.

http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2008/05/reckless-shamel.html