WSJ on Jurors' Social Media Use

The Wall Street Journal has a story today entitled, "Jurors' Tweets Upend Trials," which discusses the negative impact of social networking on jury trials. Interestingly, it appears that judges are becoming less tolerant of jurors who break the rules banning social media use during trials. The article reports that a Florida judge sentenced a juror to three days in jail after the juror friended the defendant in a personal injury case on Facebook.