Court Might Block Release Of Facebook Posts By Juror
California's Supreme Court ordered the case of a juror who was asked to turn over his Facebook messages be revived and sent back down to the lower courts.
A juror in a California gang beating case who doesn’t want to turn over his Facebook messages might not have to.
California’s Supreme Court voted unanimously that the case be sent back to the Third District Court of Appeal, according to the Sacramento Bee.
The juror, Arturo Ramirez, allegedly wrote on his on Facebook wall “Can it get any more boring?” A fellow juror had found the post and the defense attorney set a subpoena to Facebook asking for Ramirez’s full records.
Facebook opposed releasing the postings on its own, citing federal computer privacy laws.
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