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Party night tip: Be sentencing safe when you surf and post

By Douglas A. Berman

This new CBS/AP story, headlined "Drinking, Driving And Facebook Don't Mix: Web Networking Photos Come Back To Bite Defendants," provides another twist on our modern brave new world of sentencing technologies.  Here are snippets from a story that provides a pre-party-night cautionary tale:Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner.  Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird." In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 18, 2008 (boomark / email).