The Iso Tank Blog » Social Networking http://www.theisotank.com/blog Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:18:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Social Networking & Jury Duty http://www.theisotank.com/blog/social-networking-jury-duty/ http://www.theisotank.com/blog/social-networking-jury-duty/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:07:19 +0000 Alana http://www.theisotank.com/?p=82 james-spaderPost it in your blog, update your Twitter status. Mention it on your Facebook page, send a text message. Google the name of a person on trial, check out the validity of witness testimonies, look-up the intersection of an incident with Google Maps. Who really needs a lawyer and judge anymore? Certainly not some recent jurors, who have been found using their cell phones to gather information, ultimately resulting in mistrials.

In a recent article by the NY Times it was announced that the court may start diving a bit deeper into your background when you’re on the chopping block for jury duty by placing emphasis on your affiliation with social networking sites. If you turn out to be an avid poster, the court may say “Thanks, but no thanks” and send you on your merry way.

So if you really, really want to get out of jury duty, your best shot may just be to open a social networking account and post any-and-everything that comes to your mind — Scare ‘em off with your vast attention to “detail”.

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