Social media posts often used to screen jurors

By Emma Witman ewitman@gainesvilletimes.com POSTED: July 13, 2014 12:23 a.m. Online social media profiles have become a seamless extension of our real-world personalities. But with broader access to sharing your life and personality via the Internet come implications, including with the criminal justice system. “To the extent that prospective jurors choose to make information concerning...

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Potential Candidate/Employee Monitoring via Social Media

We are pleased to introduce our social media pre-employment screening and monitoring services now available to employers and staffing agencies. Use of social media as an employee screening tool has become much more prevalent over the past few years and as such it is a necessary part of the screening process to research publicly accessible online presence and social media. Much like a background...

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Juror Misconduct

If you don't believe that jurors are using social media against the court's instructions or they may have connections to those in law enforcement, associated with your case, etc. - just do a simple Google search for news items on juror misconduct.  This week a juror in an Akron court was dismissed and a mistrial was requested because of her association with the Prosecutor's Office. AKRON- After...

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Do You Know Who Is On Your Jury?

The ABA has recently issued Formal Opinion 466 regarding the use of “electronic social media” (ESM) to obtain publicly accessible information from potential jurors' or litigant's social media presence. The somewhat antiquated court system is trying to deal with the problem of socially networked jurors and either does not have the resources to monitor jurors' social media or simply does not understand...

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