chareverie writes "With how the internet has become, social network sites such as Facebook and Myspace have become a tool for crime solvers, employers, and now... lawyers.
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged on a case of drunk driving, the college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner with his garmets adorning the words "jail bird". Not surprisingly, his prosecutor was able to obtain photos of him at the party that were posted on Facebook, holding him as 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 his sentence to two years in prison.
The article also cites other instances of people getting harsher sentences from pictures of them posted online.
So much for these social networking sites to be a "place for friends"." Link to Original Source
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