The photos you post online may become evidence at your trial
10:30 AM CDT on Monday, July 21, 2008
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Two
weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that
seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a
Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed
him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled
"Jail Bird."
In the age of the
Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those
pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook.
And that offered remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor
handling Lipton's drunken-driving case.
Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier
who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge
agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two
years in prison.
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