SACRAMENTO — A three-justice panel on Friday appeared split over whether a former jury foreman should be forced to hand over months of Facebook postings he made during a 2010 felony trial in Sacramento.
In a case with the potential to set the boundaries between social media privacy and fair-trial rights, five defendants convicted in a gang-related beating want to see what the foreman, known only as Juror No. 1, told his Facebook friends about the trial.
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