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The Legal Upside of Memorializing Countless Details of Your Life Online

By Bruce Carton

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Last week I wrote here about "The Legal Perils of Memorializing Countless Details of Your Life." These perils were demonstrated when Paris Hilton tweeted and uploading a photo to Twitter in July 2010 about how much she loved her new purse, then claimed in August 2010 that drugs found in an apparently identical purse she was carrying were not hers because the purse belonged not to her but to to a friend. As discussed in this post on Bow Tie Law's Blog (via FutureLawyer), however, tracks left on the information superhighway can go both ways. In an unpublished opinion by the California Court of Appeals last week, the court held that the alibi offered by a criminal defendant -- that he was playing poker on MySpace at the time of the crime -- was neither "implausible or bizarre," as argued by prosecutors. BTLB reports that "the MySpace records showed that someone was logged into the Appellant-Defendant?s account at the time of the crime. The Appellant-Defendant claimed he did not share his account information with anyone." The MySpace alibi did not end up saving the defendant in this case as the court went on to rule that (a) the specific jury...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 16, 2010 (boomark / email).