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Social Networking Sites Becoming Useful For Lawyers - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online:
chareverie writes "With how the internet has become, social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become a tool for crime solvers, employers, and now, lawyers. Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunk driving case, the college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner, with the words 'jail bird' on his costume. Not surprisingly, his prosecutor was able to obtain photos of him at the party that were posted on Facebook, and claimed he was an 'unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital.' The photos were presented in a slideshow, with one of them showing Lipton holding a can of Red Bull in one hand, and an arm draped around a girl bearing sorority letters. The judge agreed with the prosecutor, and changed Lipton's sentence to two years in prison. The article also cites other instances of people getting harsher sentences from pictures of them posted online."
(Read Original Article - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online.)
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Moron
This kid is a moron. It's one thing to do something stupid, it's another thing to brag about it - especially in a public place like facebook. I dont mind people using stuff I post about myself but what concerns me more is people posting information about me and others taking it as fact. Want to see something creepy - HumanBook (HumanBook.com). The site has the public information already of 200 million people and aloows other people to post information about you on your profile that's already there.. yep, that's right. If you havent already, go on and set your privacy settings before people start saying they are you or worse.