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Wired Magazine is reporting that the Judicial Conference of the United States, the body that develops policy for federal courts in that country, has proposed new model jury instructions that explicitly ban the use of applications like Facebook and Twitter : "U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson of Kansas, the chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, told the nation’s judges in a Jan. 28 memo that ...
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The piece, co-authored by blog contributor Rob Smith and attorney G. Ben Cohen, is available on SSRN . Professor Berman at Sentencing Law & Policy recently spotlighted the piece here . The abstract states: Scholars have devoted substantial attention to both the over-representation of African-Americans on federal death row and the disproportionate number of federal defendants charged capitally for the murder of white victims. This ...
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Login Get your own Posterous Freedom to Differ A blog that speaks freely about law, politics and the internet Back to blog Viewed 25 times Favorited 0 times February 9, 2010 "Why Shouldn't Jurors Be Able To Use Technology To Do More Research?" We've pointed out in the past that, eventually, the judicial system is going to have to come to terms with the fact ...
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