06-17-2011
Juror Facebook Verdict
Juror Facebook Verdict – Juror Facebook verdict an eight months jail after using social networking to contact a defendant.
Juror Facebook verdict an estimated eight months of imprisonment in the person of Joanne Fraill, 40, London’s High Court after admitting an exchange message between a defendant of an ongoing multi-million pound drugs trial named Jamie Sewart.
Facebook contempt court has been used for the first time because of contact using the internet. “Her contact with the acquitted defendant as well as her repeated searches on the Internet constituted flagrant breaches of the orders made by the judge for the proper conduct of the trial,” Chief Justice Igor said.
Juror verdict Facebook controversy was firm. “The jury’s deliberations, and ultimately their verdict, must be based — and exclusively based — on the evidence given in court, a principle which applies as much to communication with the Internet as it does to discussions by members of the jury with individuals in and around, and sometimes outside the precincts of the court,” he said.
Fraill caused an estimated £6 million for her contact with sewart which results in acquittance of conspiracy to drug supply.
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