Crime Time

So, I am new to this social networking thing. I know, but it is better late than never, I think. It seems, for the last few days I have been immersed in social networking. Let me explain. When I got back to work after the weekend, I had a Facebook page that is linked to my Twitter account, that both are linked to my phone. I don't know how it happened I just know i was told to tweet and update my face book page while I am out on stories. Well first I had to learn how to do that, and I am still learning. Then I did a story with the Abilene Police Department on how they are about to file their first couple of on-line bullying cases, involving Facebook and some local students (they did not name the schools or the students or what they did exactly, but you can imagine), so I had to do some research to know what I was talking about. Well, today I learned that not only is there a learning curve on how to use all this stuff, but there is one on when to use it. I was in the 104th district court today for the Timothy Moreno murder trial. After the lunch break, I was sitting outside the courtroom, waiting for the trial to get started back up, when I saw the District Attorney walk by with a piece of paper in his hand. He went to the Bailiff of the 104th and they walked for just a second together and the DA handed the paper to the Bailiff. The Bailiff then walked towards me and said "This will not happen again in my courtroom." He showed me the paper the DA had handed him, and it was an article from Big Country Home Page, that included a tweet that I had tweeted from the inside the courtroom. Apparently the Judge does not allow tweeting from his court room. I apologized to Rafe, the Bailiff, who was nice as could be about the whole thing but I did not get to apologize to the Judge, but I hope to catch up with him tomorrow. Sorry Judge.