Youngstown Ohio Jury Info Breach

[Al Mac <macwheel99 () sigecom net>]

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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