As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up (Published 2009)

Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge’s instructions and centuries of legal rules. But when the judge questioned the rest of the jury, he got an even bigger shock. Eight other jurors had been doing the same thing. The federal judge, William J. Zloch, had no choice but

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> It might be called a Google mistrial. / > Mr. Keene said jurors might think they were helping, not hurting, by digging deeper.