Comments on: Police Blotter: MySpace profile sets convicted felon free

Man convicted of molesting two girls gets new trial after appeals court agrees jurors shouldn't have perused MySpace for one girl's profile.

[nmoore6676]

Problem

With the prolific amounts of information available in our connected society it is going to be more and more difficult to restrict the information jurors bring into their deliberations. It will be difficult to get people to serve if total sequestration is imposed, more people might risk contempt charges and simply refuse to report when summoned. Then there is the issue of what prospective jurors have read, seen and heard prior to the trial. What to do?

[tres1973]

what to do?

Have appointed jurors from every zip in the United States sequestered for 30 days to hear as many cases as they can. Pay them, train them and let them decide cases based on evidence presented during trial only. Have them deliberate without any communication outside of that room.

[suyts]

Naw, the problem

is the lack of an IQ test for jurors. The fact that these Jurors thought that they would find anything credible or pertinent in a MySpace site posted by a 13 y/o should be criminal. Now, because of their idiocy, we potential have a child molester walking free. The problem is that while they were busy doing their "Matlock/Serlock" impersinations, they couldn't descern that they were doing the wrong thing all the while sitting in judgement of another person.

[nmoore6676]

Problem

With the prolific amounts of information available in our connected society it is going to be more and more difficult to restrict the information jurors bring into their deliberations. It will be difficult to get people to serve if total sequestration is imposed, more people might risk contempt charges and simply refuse to report when summoned. Then there is the issue of what prospective jurors have read, seen and heard prior to the trial. What to do?

[tres1973]

what to do?

Have appointed jurors from every zip in the United States sequestered for 30 days to hear as many cases as they can. Pay them, train them and let them decide cases based on evidence presented during trial only. Have them deliberate without any communication outside of that room.

[suyts]

Naw, the problem

is the lack of an IQ test for jurors. The fact that these Jurors thought that they would find anything credible or pertinent in a MySpace site posted by a 13 y/o should be criminal. Now, because of their idiocy, we potential have a child molester walking free. The problem is that while they were busy doing their "Matlock/Serlock" impersinations, they couldn't descern that they were doing the wrong thing all the while sitting in judgement of another person.

[zclayton2]

Wrong headline

The headline should read "Idiot Juror who can't follow judge's instructions allows convicted felon to go free". That Juror should be incarcerated on contemp of court charges until the new trail starts.

[zclayton2]

Wrong headline

The headline should read "Idiot Juror who can't follow judge's instructions allows convicted felon to go free". That Juror should be incarcerated on contemp of court charges until the new trail starts.