The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
The case, some 2 and a half years back now,
unsurprisingly got a lot of Internet media attention and a search on
Jennifer Strange brings up every possible theory about how she died and
who was to blame.
San Diego lawyer Harvey Levine now wants
jurors who get through the selection process to sign a declaration
stating that they will not use "personal electronic and media devices"
to research or communicate about the case.
Levine argues, in court papers, that jurors who do conduct Internet research like this are guilty of juror misconduct.
It works both ways, of course, and you might recall the case
of UK Magistrate Steve Molyneux, also known as ProfOnTheProwl on
Twitter. Earlier this year he stepped down after 16 years on the bench,
following reports that he had been sending Tweets about the cases he
had been hearing.
Still, the notion of banning Google (and all other search engines)
during the full length of a trial is an interesting one. Not all juries
are kept 'on-site' as it were, in some case they go home after each day
and return the next.
Is it really feasible to prevent them from watching TV, listening to
the radio or, god forbid, using the Internet when at home? Of course
not, nor is it feasible to do the same at a jury hotel during a trial.
Isn't it about time the courts caught up with the times we live in?
Lawyers go to great lengths to determine what facts can and cannot be
put before a jury, and often crucial evidence is kept away from them
due to some legal technicality or other.
Surely the more information that is made available to a jury the
better, technology provides them with a better 360 view of events.
Even the 'but it might be biased information' argument is nullified by
the fact that bias is exactly what you get from both defending and
prosecuting lawyers - yet jurors are thought to be intelligent enough
to arrive at a balanced opinion despite this.
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