Constitutional Court decides against laptops in the courtroom.

When a judge in the courtroom prohibits the use of laptops is not sustainable aggravation of reporting, the Constitutional Court ruled. Unlike pad and pencil could with the PC but the right break - when the cameras included Dinger.
  Karlsruhe - A judge can use laptops during the negotiation ban. This was decided by the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on Thursday and approved the arrangement so that the presiding judge in Oldenburg "wood-block process."
In the explanatory memorandum states that modern laptops had partially cameras and microphones. Their deployment was during the court hearing prohibited by law. It could during the hearing hardly be controlled if the bodies were switched.
The presiding judge of the Land Court Oldenburg journalists had to use the small computer prohibited. He reasoned that, inter alia, with disturbing noises. A court reporter affected ranged however, the Federal urgent one and made the violation of freedom of the press law. The board of the First Senate rejected the request unanimous.
Ban prevents live reports
The three constitutional judges admits that the journalists so that an efficient work will be withdrawn. After reporting on the ground was thus denied. They also held the justification for disturbing noises operation not entirely convincing. The press coverage was sustained but not so difficult that a significant deterioration of press freedom would be feared.
The journalist argued that because of strict security checks in the wood-block process in the court breaks little time for writing the reports remained. He could therefore his newspaper because of the early Redaktionsschlusses not deliver when he is not with the device in the courtroom could take. These were the Karlsruhe judges noted that all local journalists working in the same way meet.
In Oldenburg must face the alleged murderer Nicholas H. responsibility. According to the investigation, he threw on 23 March, wooden block from a motorway bridge near Oldenburg and killed a woman.