Harvard’s Berkman Center For Internet and Society streamed a presentation and discussion of the OpenCourt project today. View the full video.

Four people were arraigned this morning on murder charges in the shooting death of a man in Randolph over the weekend. The defendants were ordered held without bail and near the conclusion of the hearing, audience members began shouting and the courtroom devolved into chaos.

On Monday, December 5, OpenCourt will be hosting a cooperative coverage day event at Quincy District Court to capture the breadth of everything that occurs there in one day. If you are interested to be a contributor, please contact us for further details:

A man accused of murdering his sister, mother, and mother’s boyfriend in Weymouth last Thursday had previously been arraigned in a separate case in Quincy District Court on September 8 on charges of attempting to commit a crime and being in possession of burglarious tools.

Our big day in court has come and gone. Now we await a decision.

A single SJC justice reserved her ruling and suggested a public hearing before the full seven-member Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The central issue at stake in the case is a First Amendment question of whether the court can order a news organization to redact material that has been presented to the public in open court.

We’ll be offline this coming week, July 11th through the 15th.

Update: We’re back.

Troubleshooting network problems is an inevitable challenge when livestreaming video all day every day. What’s surprising is when the problem isn’t, say, the protocol for how your router is assigning IP addresses, but a GIANT CRANE.