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News of Interest

• "Lawyer Faces Admonition Over Facebook 'Friending' to Gather Information on Litigant,"
  "Lawyer Faces Admonition Over Facebook 'Friending' to Gather Information on Litigant," by Charles Toutant, New Jersey Law Journal, May 13, 2020
• "Facebook, Twitter hold evidence that could save people from prison. And they’re not giving it up,"
  "Facebook, Twitter hold evidence that could save people from prison. And they’re not giving it up," by Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, January 21, 2020
• "‘Gotcha’ vs. ‘gotchu’: How social media shorthand became key evidence in a double-murder trial,"
  "‘Gotcha’ vs. ‘gotchu’: How social media shorthand became key evidence in a double-murder trial," by Dan Morse, Washington Post, January 08, 2020
• "Criminal Liability and Social Media: Can a 'Like' Be a Crime?,"
  "Criminal Liability and Social Media: Can a 'Like' Be a Crime?," by Amr Razzak, Stacy Kray and Kelsey Merrick , The Recorder, November 06, 2019
• "Social Media, Jurors and Jury Instructions,"
  "Social Media, Jurors and Jury Instructions," by Mark A. Berman, New York Law Journal, November 04, 2019
• "Opinion: Why evidence exonerating the wrongly accused can stay locked up on Instagram,"
  "Opinion: Why evidence exonerating the wrongly accused can stay locked up on Instagram," by Jeffrey D. Stein, Washington Post, September 10, 2019
• "Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases. Judges are struggling with how to interpret them,"
  "Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases. Judges are struggling with how to interpret them," by Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, July 08, 2019
• "Keeping Your Jury From Social Media Contamination,"
  "Keeping Your Jury From Social Media Contamination," by Toni Messina, Above the Law, April 29, 2019
• "Facebook Evidence Authentication: Another 'Boring' E-Disco Opinion (Part II),"
  "Facebook Evidence Authentication: Another 'Boring' E-Disco Opinion (Part II)," by Leonard Deutchman, Legal Intelligencer, September 06, 2018
• "Authentication of Social Media,"
  "Authentication of Social Media," by Mark A. Berman, New York Law Journal, August 31, 2018

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