Related News: Jurors’ Facebook posts could threaten murder verdict

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A jury foreman who took to social media to complain about being picked as a juror and then to discuss the murder case while it was still being tried may have put the guilty verdict in jeopardy.

Harvey Labadie and another juror’s posts on Facebook — at least one of them made from the jury room in the Macomb County courthouse in Mt. Clemens — were cited by attorneys in their request for a new trial for Terry Wilson, 21, of Clinton Township.

Source: USA Today

Related News: Mont. court blocks judge on new sentence for teen rape

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. USA Today published an article titled Mont. court blocks judge on new sentence for teen rape.

Montana’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered a county judge to cancel a hearing to reconsider the 30-day prison sentence he gave a former high school teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old student with whom he had a sexual relationship for several months.

Source: USA Today