"Google Mistrials" Become More Common as More Jurors Look to the Web

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After spending 10 years in the U.S. Navy, Kenric Scarbrough got a sobering start to his civilian career. He was laid off in January, just months after he found a job as a boiler technician -- one of the victims of the worsening economy.
"Google Mistrials" Become More Common as More Jurors Look to the Web
Recently I wrote that a mistrial may be declared in a civil case because a juror was using Twitter to broadcast trial information while the trial was still underway. I hadn't seen a case like this before that, but the New York Times has found that this sort of "Google Mistrial," as they called it, is becoming more common.