Preventing the "Google Mistrial": Challenge Posed by Jurors who use the Internet and Social Media
You finished closing arguments yesterday in a difficult, two-week-long trial. The jury has been out for almost a full day now. Your client, who has a lot resting on the outcome and is at risk of having to pay out a lot of money, turns to you and asks, for what seems like the twelfth time, "What is going on in there? What is taking them so long to reach a verdict?" Rather than repeat the same answer you've given the last three times the question was asked-the one about siftin
