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Social Networking Sites Becoming Useful For Lawyers
chareverie writes "With how the internet has become, social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become a tool for crime solvers, employers, and now, lawyers. Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunk driving case, the college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner, with the words 'jail bird' on his costume. Not surprisingly, his prosecutor was able to obtain photos of him at the party that were posted on Facebook, and claimed he was an 'unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital.' The photos were presented in a slideshow, with one of them showing Lipton holding a can of Red Bull in one hand, and an arm draped around a girl bearing sorority letters. The judge agreed with the prosecutor, and changed Lipton's sentence to two years in prison. The article also cites other instances of people getting harsher sentences from pictures of them posted online."
what if you drive at 10mph?
that is safe, takes longer to get home, but do able if drunk.
How about ----- govt free taxis to drive drunk people home.
Im sure the cost of that would be 50x lower than drunk drives. Or like in europe, cheap public transport, that doesnt finish at 6pm, but 3am.
We need uber geeks in charge, and get rid of all those lawyers.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
I see your last name is "klein". That confirms your identity.
Most fucking Jew fag want to be a lawyer so they can screw up the system. No wonder now 90% of the lawyers are kikes.
This guy deserve everything going his way. And we don't need any Jew fags to defend them.