Newspaper: Thorns to 'Twittering jurors'

From the editorial page of The Pottstown Mercury:

THORNS to those engaging in sending Twitter messages during private meetings, such as jury deliberations. The new technology of mass-texting to friends in a cell phone address book violates the warning of judges not to discuss deliberations. Experts say that most messages posted to the social networking site are innocuous, perhaps expressing boredom. But at least a few jurors have gone online to discuss cases they are helping decide, including an example earlier this week in Philadelphia, when a juror in the corruption trial for state Sen. Vincent Fumo forecast that a verdict was near. The juror, Eric Wuest, compared the sites to journals where he posts his private thoughts. Some lawyers think jury instructions should be updated to clarify that online communications about a case are also prohibited. Or people could just use common sense.