L.A. Courts End Remote Audio Program After Illicit Britney Spears Hearing Recording Surfaces
BY ASHLEY CULLINS | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT Audio of the artist's emotional statements — in a hearing that didn't allow recording — was posted online. It didn’t take long for audio from Britney Spears’ June 23 conservatorship hearing to make the rounds on the internet, despite a clear and emphatic warning from the L.A. County Judge Brenda Penny that recording wasn’t allowed. Whether the person, or people, who did it will face any penalty remains to be seen, but the court has taken another action in response: It shut down its remote audio attendance program entirely. Under California state and…