"At the office, in the car or anywhere else, we share every detail of
our daily existence in real time on Facebook. Most of the time, this is
acceptable and constitutionally protected behavior. But what happens in
the courtroom when jurors post their opinions about a case online during trial?
Last month, one Michigan juror found out. Before the case was over, this juror posted on Facebook
how it was "gonna be fun to tell the defendant they're GUILTY." Alert
defense counsel saw the posting, and the trial judge dismissed the
juror, fined her $250 and ordered her to write a five-page essay about
the constitutional right to a fair trial.
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California Closing Criminal Records
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SB-731 Automatically Sealing of Conviction and Arrest Records A social
justice bill that implements a system to prospectively and retroactively
seal conv...