JURORS BEHAVING BADLY

A blog about the very small percentage of jurors who fail to follow the judge's instructions, including doing independent Internet research, using social media (such as Facebook) to contact parties and lawyers, and blogging about the trial. Juror misconduct frequently results in mistrials and a waste of resources. Links will be provided to sample jury summonses, jury instructions, and other resources to improve juror education and minimize juror misconduct, thereby promoting fairness of trials.

Friday, March 24, 2017

Law Review Article on What Texting By Jurors Means to the Courts

This law review article raises few issues not previously discussed in this blog, but the writer does focus on the unique problem of discovering a juror's texting as opposed to a juror commenting on Facebook or Twitter. He concludes that as to texting the issue is not what the texter sends but rather what they receive via text message.

http://lawreview.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Vol-67.1-Powers.pdf