It's a common known fact that jurors taking part in a case are forbidden to discuss any information relating to a trial outside of the courtroom.Not with family, friends,not with anyone. Now however, with the popular emergence of social networking sites jurors are slipping, and discussing cases on sites like Twitter and Facebook.
As of March 17th, two verdicts in US trials are being appealed because jurors made comments about the trials on these sites.
Comments ranged from giving away the date of a court decision, and even tweeting about how much money a company was going to have to pay it's investors.
Is the legal world ready to face the new challenges that social networking sites pose? How can jurors stay from being predisposed to a certain verdict.
In the world we live in with instant communication and information, the court system could struggle in keeping trials speedy, but mostly fair.
What do you think the courts should do? Is there anyway to prevent jurors from using the wide range of social media sites during a trial?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7948845.stm
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