Nowadays if you want to to know any information about any pe

Nowadays if you want to to know any information about any person the first thing you need to do is search in social media Twetter ,Facewbook,…etc. It is not a bad thing if the the juories use it at the court room but they don’t have to trust all the information that they found because as we know not all the information are true. After a little search I found 3 examples of the jury mistakes during using social media source for important cases : • “In Arkansas, a juror was Tweeting during jury deliberations (that\'s when the jury decides who wins the case). It was a civil case involving an investment company\'s mismanagement of investor\'s funds. The jury awarded the investors $12.6 million. But it may not stand. Defense attorneys filed a motion for a mistrial asking that the judgment be thrown out because the juror\'s Tweets showed that he was biased against the company and had done outside research over the internet • In Florida, a mistrial was declared in a criminal case after a defendant was convicted of drug-related crimes. Several jurors were running Google searches about the defendant, looking up definitions of legal terms, and discovered evidence that they weren\'t supposed to know about (it had been excluded from the trial) • Again in Pennsylvania, there was a motion for a mistrial in criminal case against Vincent Fumo, a former state senator. He claimed the trial was unfair because a juror was posting updates on the case Twitter and Facebook. The motion was denied, but he plans an appeal based on the juror\'s activities All these cases happened in 2009. Early in 2010, and no doubt because of cases like these, a model jury instruction was drafted for use in federal courts. Essentially it tells jurors they\'re not allowed to do outside research over the web or communicate through \"e-mail, Blackberry, iPhone, text messaging, or on Twitter,\" among others.” Jurors are supposed to consider and weigh only the evidence they hear and see in court. Information from the outside may make a trial unfair.

Solution

Social Media and search engines are inevitable in today\'s world. It is good that the new norms have came which does not allow jurors to search for evidence on internet. However, it MAY not deter from using internet to form their own opinions. Ideally, its the parties involved who should have done that search and presented evidence before the court. If a juror does that, it appears that he is now playing the role of prosecution in collecting he evidence. This is not his duty to collect evidence but to make a sound judgement based on what has been presented to him.