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Old 06-23-2011, 01:57 PM  
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These people are Facebook nuts lol

A woman over here in the UK got jailed for 8 months for posting on Facebook while doing jury service. They jailed her for contempt of court

The first juror to be prosecuted for contempt of court for using the internet has been left "totally devastated" after she was jailed for eight months.

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, and two other senior judges used the case of Joanne Fraill, 40, who admitted chatting with an acquitted defendant on Facebook, to warn jurors generally not to undermine the country's "precious jury system" by discussing or researching their cases online.

When Lord Judge announced her sentence, Fraill, from Blackley, Manchester, cried "Eight months!" and put her head on the table in front of her at London's High Court and sobbed.

She is expected to serve four months before becoming eligible for early release. The maximum custodial sentence she could have received was two years.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/facebook-ju...095116804.html
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