Facebook and Twitter: A No-No for Federal Jurors

Were you hoping to waste away your hours of jury duty on Facebook or Twitter?

Federal judges are hoping you won't, and have a new list of instructions from the Federal Judicial Conference Committee on how to discourage social networking in the courthouse throughout cases. While you may just be browsing breaking news or your friends' updates, judges are concerned you'll engage in external research or leak details about the case.

The new guidelines, drafted in June and issued Friday, instruct judges how to best deter jurors from using Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to research and communicate about the cases for which they're serving. Judges are told to review these instructi…
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