A juror who sparked a mistrial in a child sex-assault case by surfing the Web and sharing his findings with fellow jurors escaped a contempt sanction on Tuesday, as a judge found it to be “a genuine, though perhaps reckless, mistake.”
However, Bergen County Assignment Judge Peter Doyne urged changes to the Model Jury Charges to “make unquestionably clear the prohibition on juror research and outside materials is absolute.”
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