This is my opinion from all the articles I have read - I think it's being done in an over-abundance of caution.
From this article:
https://www.1011now.com/content/news/No-sign-of-Aubrey-Trail-in-court-amidst-long-day-of-delays-511529191.html "According to the order, a newspaper reporter tweeted that Trail was taken from D & E in Lincoln on a 911 emergency. Then a member of the press contacted the defense counsel in a hospital parking lot where Trail was being treated in the emergency room. The order said broadcast of this information constituted a security threat to the defendant, counsel and law enforcement."
I haven't followed other trials close enough, but this absolutely should not be happening. It's evident from comments in here that he is not a well-liked man (for obvious reasons, and he shouldn't be) and I can tell you the sentiments from local's is no different. It absolutely is a safety concern when someone - a newspaper reporter or anyone else, is tweeting that he is was taken to the hospital. In this particular situation, I think this was just plain carelessness on the part of that newspaper reporter as they could have someone camped outside of D & E (which is Diagnostic and Evaluation) watching for him to leave, in which case it wouldn't make a bit of difference if they were allowing live reporting inside he courtroom or not. However, by ordering no live reporting, the judge is going to stop it before it can even become a problem.
As for the poor mom, I do feel for her. I didn't see the comment, but as someone said in a previous comment here, it is no secret that the jury is not sequestered. She probably should have just answered "no" without mentioning that her daughter was on the jury, but as someone else also mentioned, Saline county isn't heavily populated. I'm sure it's no secret who is on the jury, everyone knows someone, who knows someone else. If you aren't familiar with how small farming communities work, there were people at the local restaurant for coffee on Tuesday morning and there were
many conversations happening about it - I can almost promise you that! That doesn't mean there won't be a juror who breaks the rules and does start talking/blogging/tweeting or whatever about it, but I think that Judge Johnson will deal with that appropriately. I think the order yesterday was done appropriately, and simply out of an abundance of caution to prevent things from getting out of hand.
That's all my opinion! Have a good day everyone!
