In the first known New Jersey case of a juror punished for doing his own Internet research, a Bergen County judge has imposed a $500 criminal contempt sanction on a jury foreman whose actions led to a mistrial. Assignment Judge Peter Doyne found Daniel Kaminsky violated repeated instructions not to do independent research and that what he learned about the sentence for the crime, which he considered unjust, might have motivated his “not guilty” vote, leaving the jury hung.
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