from the a-jury-of-disconnected-peers dept
We were just writing about courts requiring jurors to sign statements saying they
would not Google details of cases they were hearing, and just like clockwork, we hear of a jury verdict that was
overturned due to a Googling juror. The case is actually from a few years ago, and is only popping up now, because a higher court has said that the decision to overturn the jury verdict was reasonable. There was one other oddity in the case as well: the reason the juror Googled the information was because he was told ahead of time the names of parties involved in cases he might hear. Why? I have no clue... I would think that any court that does that would likely have a situation where almost
everyone on the jury did at least a little searching and poking around.
Filed Under: juror, searching
