Here is a link to article in Duke Law and Technology Review on jurors and social media. The authors suggest that judges give specific instructions prohibiting use of social media discussing the trial or doing research on the Internet, and that those instructions be given early during a jury trial and often. There is an interesting survey of 140 jurors regarding the temptation to use social media.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2020499
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