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Supreme Court says no judge can order press out of courtroom

Supreme Court of Justice president, Jorge Subero, says that no judge can order the press out of a courtroom. Judge Adrilya Vales Dalmasi of the Camara Civil y Comercial de la Cuarta Circunscripcion del Distrito Nacional ordered Luis Guzman, a journalist for El Siglo, to leave the court alleging that he distorted the case when writing about it. He was covering the case of people who benefitted by receiving vehicles to transport INESPRE food stuffs during the past PLD government.