MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – As jury deliberations resume in a baseball bat assault trial, anyone entering the courtroom will get a copy of a judge’s order banning the taking of photos of the jurors.

The issue came up late Friday after Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Carol Ann Conboy learned a juror had expressed concern about photographs being taken by cell phone from the spectators’ gallery.

The judge said if photographs were taken, they were to be destroyed. If they are not destroyed, she said, the individual who took them will face contempt of court including incarceration.

Conboy also said that the jurors are not to be photographed coming into or leaving the courthouse. She said anyone who disseminates a photograph of a juror could be subject to potential sanctions, including jail.

Jurors are deliberating in the trial of Larry “Tito” Barbossa who’s been charged with beating Stephen Raymond with a baseball bat in August.

Raymond, 42, is paralyzed from the neck down a result of the beating and remains in a Boston rehabilitation hospital.

A co-defendant, Felix Urena, 22, of Candia, formerly of Manchester, was acquitted of first-degree assault last month. He testified Thursday under immunity that Barbosa hit Raymond twice with a baseball bat.

Two other teenagers, Robinson Garcia, now 17, and Randal Rodriguez, also 17, were charged in juvenile court with first-degree assault and riot.

Deliberations were scheduled to resume Monday morning.

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Information from: New Hampshire Union Leader, http://www.unionleader.com

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