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Accounts of jurors doing Web research and using Twitter and other social networking tools has been much in the news recently. Deliberations’ Anne Reed has a nice summary of the buzz. No one seems to know just what to do when jurors take to the Internet. Anne offers One Simple Rule When Jurors Go Online …
In the March 2008 NIJ Journal (National Institute of Justice), felony trial judge Donald Shelton explores The ‘CSI Effect’: Does It Really Exist? Based on findings from a survey of jurors in Ann Arbor, Shelton concludes that it does not. Many attorneys, judges, and journalists have claimed that watching television programs like CSI has caused …
This morning, Anne Reed of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, SC appeared on Lake Effect, a program on Milwaukee’s public radio station WUWM. In the ten minute interview, Anne discusses the phenomenon of blogging jurors. Really interesting stuff. In case you missed it, the interview is available on the Lake Effect Web site. For more on …