http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/us/18juries.html?hp

[QUOTE]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

 

We undermine our own justice system every day with assumptions of guilt. . . this is just more stupidity. . .

 

We have a justice system to undermine?

 

The don't want a justice system, they want a legal system.

I think research ought to be REQUIRED in law cases. So many times you are getting skewed information.

They dont' want anyone who knows anything about a crime to be on a jury

 

Research comes with inherent bias. What then?

 

[QUOTE=article]But now, using their cellphones, they can look up the name of a defendant on the Web, or examine an intersection using Google Maps, violating the legal system