Twitter & Twit
One would expect that anyone serving on a jury, in any country, would at least take the matter seriously. Especially if the jury is to decide on the life or death of the defendant.

Not in Arkansas, USA, it would appear, where Erickson Dimas-Martinez has just had his conviction for murder overturned and death sentence revoked. All because one juror was continually Tweating throughout the trial and another fell asleep.

The defendants lawyers successfully argued that if a juror is taking an afternoon siesta whilst evidence is being heard, there is a fair old chance that the said juror might not of got the gist of that evidence. The lawyer also argued that if a juror is sending dozens of Tweats during proceedings, he can’t be paying full attention to proceedings or deliberations.

If there is any mitigation for the jurors here, it is that the defendant Erickson Dimas-Martinez was quite obviously guilty of the murder of a 17-year-old youth and the decisions being made were as to whether he was as mad as a march hare when he committed the crime or just a violent nasty murdering SOB. But still, the jurors should have at least been listening to what was going.

As it stands, the gun-totiing Dimas-Martinez has earned himself a new trial, at great expense, through no fault of his own, but his request for all charges to be dropped fell on very deaf ears.

Oops, Wrong Victim
Anthony Miranda must have felt pretty tough as he approached the man sitting in his parked car in Chicago, USA, especially as he was holding a gun.
He pointed the gun at the man behind the wheel and asked for money, which the very carefully gave him. But then Mugger Miranda made a big mistake… he ordered his victim to get out of the car. Well you would, wouldn’t you, when things are going so well and your the one holding the gun.

While his victim was standing in front of him, Miranda was distracted for a split second… 30 seconds later he found himself on the ground with two black eyes and several other rather nasty facial injuries. His gun didn’t turn out to be much help either, because in that split second he realised something was wrong and he decided to shoot, not realising that his victim had pushed the gun downwards in the time it had taken him to react… he therefore shot himself in the lower leg.

Police arrived to find the ‘victim’ restraining the now rather badly injured mugger. Although not wanting to be named, the ‘victim’ did explain that he was, in fact, a champion MMA fighter.

Here is the official description of what MMA is:

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles.

I Am Mark Zuckerberg!
Rotem Guez, who resides in Israel, had a brilliant idea when he was threatened with action by Facebook. He changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg, and unless you are a complete technophobe, or have been living on Jupiter for the last ten years, you will know that Mr. Zuckerberg is the head of and founder of Facebook. The thinking behind the name change being that Facebook wont want to sue someone with that name.

Two problems immediately leap out from this story, both of which seem likely to scupper Mr. Zuckerberg/Guez’s idea. One is that it is very unlikely that the name change will deter the almighty Facebook one little bit. And second, he has already admitted that he is being sued for breaches of Facebook terms of use, therefore making his online business Like Store, illegal.

We wont go into how clicking ‘like’ on Facebook is the basis of his business because… well, we really don’t care.
The fact is, he either closes his business down, seriously rethinks how it works, or faces the mighty men in suits across a courtroom.