A 26-year-old man in Oregon found out the hard way that you're
not supposed to text during jury duty:
When prosecutors were playing a video-taped interview with the defendant,
Judge Dennis Graves suddenly halted the trial after noticing a light
glow around juror Benjamin Kohler’s chest. The judge, who had
previously instructed jurors to pay attention and not to use mobile
phones, immediately halted the proceeding and ordered everybody to vacate
the courtroom except Kohler, the Sheriff’s Department said.
The authorities said Kohler “had no explanation for his actions.”
The judge declared him in contempt, and ordered the juror jailed for
two days at Marion County Jail. The judge said he wanted to teach Kohler
a lesson.
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