Mistrial by cell phone: How jurors" Web forays wreak havoc on justice

By John Schwartz / The Bulletin
March 18, 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....

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