[Dataloss] Youngstown Ohio Jury Info Breach
Al Mac
macwheel99 at sigecom.net
Sun Aug 20 12:57:33 EDT 2006
Prospective jury members fill out questionnaires which include names,
addresses and occupations of potential jurors and their families
Because of a local defense lawyer's release of personal information about
jurors, which resulted in postponement of a trial, Mahoning County's five
general division common pleas judges will soon be discussing reforms
Judge Evans decided to postpone a felony assault case, and do the trial
with a different jury, after lawyer for defendant shared jury
questionnaires with the accused's step father and minister. The judges are
now discussing a proposed new rule to prohibit release of information from
the questionnaires to anyone but court personnel with a need to know,
without a judge's permission.
The lawyer acknowledged giving the jury questionnaires to the accused's
stepfather and minister, but said there was no rule preventing him from
doing so. A deputy sheriff then reported seeing one of the people to whom
a juror questionnaire had been given, hand the questionnaire to another
person in the courtroom.
http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/320036781852634.php
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