A sworn juror who admitted reading part of a newspaper story about the dangers of jurors reading about the cases before them on the Internet was properly allowed to stay in the jury box, an upstate appeals panel decided.
The judges unanimously held in People v. Reichel, 104674, that seeing the Internet article did not mean the juror was “grossly unqualified to serve or otherwise engaged in substantial misconduct,” citing People v. Jimenez, 101 AD3d 513 (2012) and People v. Mason, 299 AD2d 724 (2002).
