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Good luck keeping your jurors off the Internet about your case.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) In her wonderfully compassionate way, the amazing SunWolf emphasizes that jurors generally are going to bring their usual behaviors from their daily lives into the deliberation room regardless of the judges' warnings to tell them to change behaviors that jurors are already habituated to -- or see as personally sacrosanct as deciding whether to put the right shoe on before the left one.  As SunWolf more specifically cautions, watch out for online jurors. If you are reading this blogposting, just hold up a mirror to yourselves; How long can you resist googling or twittering about matters you hear about during trial when you are in the gallery, let alone when you are in the jury box?  As Maryland's intermediate appellate court recounts, Zarzine Wardlaw went before a Baltimore City jury on charges of "rape in the second degree, sexual offense in the third degree, sexual offense in the fourth degree, three counts of assault in the second degree, two counts of sexual child abuse, and two counts of incest of his 17-year old daughter...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).