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YouTube sentencing for digital generation

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to a friendly reader, I saw this notable USA Today article reporting on a creative sentencing for generation next:A judge here is using YouTube to punish two boys who used the video-sharing website for a prank that ended with battery and criminal mischief charges against them. The prank, known as "fire in the hole," has become common in the past year. It happened July 25 to fast-food worker Jessica Ceponis at the drive-through of the Taco Bell in Merritt Island, about 50 miles east of Orlando. Ceponis handed a carload of teenagers their soft drinks. When she returned to the drive-through window to give them their change, they yelled, "Fire in the hole!" hurled a 32-ounce cup of soda at Ceponis and sped off. The teens posted a video of the incident on YouTube...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).