As previously reported, attorneys and jury consultants are increasingly going on line to research potential jurors seeking to discover their virtual footprint. Facebook with more than 100 million users has become one of the more popular destinations to find information. For example, in England, a juror was removed after it was discovered that on her Facebook page she talked about the trial and invited her friends to help her decide the defendant's guilt or innocence. The article below discusses the most recent occurrence of a potential juror being dismissed for comments he made on his Facebook page about jury duty.
Jury Duty and Facebook Don't Mix
So you want to keep your friends and family updated on all aspects of your life using online social networking, huh?
Barry Price, 27, of Pleasant Ridge, did that on his Facebook page this week – and it got him booted from jury duty on a prominent Hamilton County civil lawsuit and sparked an argument over whether the suit should be declared a mistrial.
“Barry Price is sitting in hell … aka jury duty,” Price wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday, information attorney Stan Chesley noted in an affidavit provided to Common Pleas Judge William Mallory
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