Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 17, 2009 @03:31AM from the justice-has-no-wifi dept.

coomaria noted an unsurprising story about how courts are having problems with jurors Googling during cases. As anyone who has ever been called for jury duty knows, you aren't allowed to get outside information about the case you are hearing, but apparently the iPhone makes it far too easy to ignore this advice. A lawyer is trying to get jurors to sign a form explicitly stating they won't "use 'personal electronic and media devices' to research or communicate about the case." Of course, I'm not exactly sure why a juror should need to sign something for your iPhone but not a newspaper.

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Heaven forbid... by Auroch · 2009-09-17 03:38 · Score: 1, Troll

Yes, we must stop people from informing themselves with the relevant issues. If they were to make informed decisions about court cases, how will the RIAA make money off file sharers?

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