For the past five days, eight jurors, one judge and a handful of reporters in a California courtroom have listened to a couple of dozen lawyers argue over hundreds of millions of dollars that Samsung might owe to Apple for infringing its patents.
The jury trial is a cornerstone of the justice system in many countries and most people's access to the process has typically been through the daily dispatches of reporters. These days -- at least in the Northern District of California -- those reporters are often allowed to use laptops and access the Internet. And that means they can tweet.
Here's a look at some of the highs and lows of the trial as told through those tweets.
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