Your personal social media accounts just become less personal by the day. But the Bar Association says this was a long time coming. Some lawyers insist on social media searches and have been following the practice for quite a while now. Check out what happened when a jury decided to tell his Facebook what was going on in the courtroom during a murder trial after the jump
IFWT Techie Tat Wza Says: “All I can say is Wow, although it seems like an evasion of privacy, this may be the one time and place I agree. The best way to get an impartial juror is to really see what their lifestyle is like, and in 2014 your lifestyle is your social media!”
When a jury was deliberating whether Lawyer Sheikh’s client was guilty of first-degree murder when the lawyer’s 26-year-old son wondered aloud what the jurors were saying on social media sites.
“I said they shouldn’t be saying anything,” Sheikh said, but decided to check anyway. He discovered a juror had made Facebook posts about the case during the trial.
Later his client was convicted of first-degree murder, and Sheikh asked for a new trial, imposing that the posts violated the judge’s rule against jurors discussing the case. “Not cool a young man is dead another young man will be in prison for long time maybe,” the juror allegedly put as his Facebook update.
Is this going to far?
via Huffington Post
