A 22-year-old juror in Texas was found guilty of criminal contempt and sentenced to community service for Facebook friending the defendant in the case to which the juror had been assigned, reports KDAF-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth. Jonathan Hudson had been instructed by the judge in the case not to discuss the matter in any online forum, including on social-media sites such as Facebook. But the young man disregarded the judge’s instructions and posted about the case on his Facebook page. He also was found to have sent a Facebook friend request to the defendant, apparently after the defendant appeared in the juror’s list of “suggested friends,” a list that is generated automatically by Facebook.
For more, see the KDAF-TV report:
http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-facebook-tarrant-county-juror-charged-story,0,1030750.story
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