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18Courts Must Keep Up with New Technologies - Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Judges are realizing that jury instructions & court rules may have to be amended to take the most recent technological craze into consideration. The New York Times and the Associated Press published interesting articles yesterday on this phenomenon, commenting on the number of mistrials resulting from juror's use of Twitter and Facebook.
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Posted At : March 18, 2009 1:12 PM | Posted By : Margaret Krause
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If you want to truly be disturbed about this, you should read some of the comments submitted by readers to the NYTimes Article in particular. Comment #14 and Comment #17 both mentioned that they thought that jurors dong research outside of the courtroom was a good idea, and that the legal system has for too long treated jurors as "children" for deciding which information that they get to hear or not hear when judging the merits of a case. Based on the number of "recommendations" that were made for those comments in particular, there are many people who feel that way. Makes one wonder how the importance of the rules of evidence can be stressed to lay people serving on juries who believe they have the right to all information out there on a particular case and not just the evidence judged worthy bythe court.
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