July 18, 2013

How Social Media Effects Criminal Proceedings

Social media has become an integral part of today's society. Not surprisingly, social media evidence often plays a critical role for government investigations and criminal proceedings. Social media is subject to the same rules of evidence as paper documents or other electronically stored information. Social media evidence can include everything from people's location at certain times, communications, photographs, status updates, plus more. Although social media evidence can be incriminating, courts, government agencies, lawyers and social media companies all struggle to agree about the legal paradigms of constitutional protections as well as the rules of social media evidence. In addition, how the evidence is obtained is often a point of argument.

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