Facebook Friend Request Results in Suspension for Philadelphia Court Officer
Posted By L. Anthony Bompiani, Esquire on Apr 23, 2009 11:30am PDT
The Associated Press
April 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA
(AP) -- A court officer in Philadelphia nearly lost his job after he
sent a friend request to a juror on the social networking Web site
Facebook.
Court officials say Nicholas Stampone Jr. was suspended for 10 days earlier this month for inappropriate contact with a juror.
First
Judicial District court administrator David Lawrence says Stampone sent
a friend request to a female juror who was sitting for a case in the
courtroom in which he worked. Stampone was suspended on April 6 after
the juror reported the request.
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What happen to the finding
that Facebook and YouTube at work make better employees? Not in this
case, I guess. Or maybe that's yesterday's news. Unfortunately, the
article does not state Stampone's age or the age of the juror. There's
also no mention of whether or not the two knew each other before this
particular instance. I'm guessing that they didn't. If they didn't, I
find it a little creepy that there was some Facebook searching going on
to find this particular juror. Live and learn.