Starting three years ago, so-called “Google mistrials” ' soon supplemented by Facebook and Twitter mistrials ' became a hot media topic as accounts began to surface of trials torpedoed or threatened by jurors' use of the Internet to conduct improper trial-related research or to communicate about the trial's progress, the evidence, or the jury's deliberations.
Jurors, Internet Research and Social Media
Jurors' use of the Internet to conduct improper trial-related research or to communicate about the trial's progress, the evidence, or the jury's deliberations has been the subject of articles in practically every bar publication that includes litigators among its target audience.
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