Don't talk about nothing

Media's central role in this trial came up again Monday morning.

Gene Secord, one of Couey's housemates, alerted the state that he had watched some of Court TV's coverage of the trial -- in violation of his order of sequestration. Secord said he watched testimony from Sharon Armstrong, a surrogate mother to Jessica, and Ruth Lunsford.

He said he didn't understand he wasn't supposed to do this.

While Public Defender Daniel Lewan moved that Secord be held in contempt, Judge Ric Howard determined the exposure wouldn't taint his testimony.

But he spelled out his next instructions for Secord: "Don't talk about nothing with anybody."

-- Elena Lesley