Jury Duty

Tweeting about Twittering Jurors

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Earlier this month, lawyers for a building products company asked an Arkansas judge to overturn a $12.6 million judgment because “Juror Johnathon” had been sending out tweets on Twitter about his thoughts on the trial. Here are our thoughts in Twitter fashion:

atlblog: Everyone’s talking about Twitter these days and the ability to broadcast your thoughts continuously in 140 character tweets.

atlblog: We really should have done a full post on it last week when that NYT story about twittering jurors and mistrials made its way around the Web.

atlblog: Jurors aren’t supposed to talk about a case outside the courtroom. Twittering is talking. What will judges do about this?

atlblog: We wonder which firms will go to the Final Four in the ATL March Madness contest… Oh. Sorry. Off topic.

atlblog: @WSJ’s Ashby Jones. We liked the headline for your piece: Twelve Twittering Men? Very clever. We imagine Henry Fonda with a BlackBerry.

atlblog: That WSJ article has a weird Bob Dylan non-sequitur at the end. Apparently, Dylan’s outhouse stinks up his neighborhood… Sorry. Off topic.

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atlblog: @davidlat. Please stop twittering about the recession and how the ship be sinking. It depresses us… Sorry. Off topic.

atlblog: Why are we so addicted to broadcasting our thoughts that we can’t not tweet and update Facebook statuses during jury duty?

atlblog: Jurors doing their own online research is the more serious problem. Lots of good letters to the NYT editor from lawyers & one law student.

atlblog: Please feel free to tweet your thoughts about jurors, social networking, technology, and twittering in the comments.

Appeal says juror sent ‘tweets’ during case [Associated Press]

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As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up [New York Times]

Twelve Twittering Men? [Wall Street Journal]

Letters to the Editor about “As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up” [New York Times]

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