‘SCORE … I GOT DISMISSED! … HA HA’ GETS HIM 3 DAYS IN JAIL

Three days in the pokey is what he got for thinking with his dick instead of his brain.

JUROR JAILED FOR ‘FRIENDING’ PRETTY DEFENDANT IN AUTO NEGLIGENCE CASE ON FACEBOOK
Jacob Jock sent the ‘friend’ request after jury questioning, which the defendant then brought to the attention of her lawyer

By Paul Thompson

Mail Online
February 20, 2012

A juror who sent a ‘friend’ request to a defendant on Facebook and then bragged about being dismissed from jury service has been jailed.

Jacob Jock was told he will spend three days in jail after a judge branded his actions an ‘insidious threat to the erosion of democracy’.

The 29-year-old was led from a Florida court in handcuffs to begin his sentence, after being found guilty of criminal contempt of court.

Jock had been selected for jury service on an auto negligence case in Sarasota, Florida, last December, where Violetta Milerman was on trial.

He sent her a friend request after jury questioning, which she brought to the attention of her lawyer.

Jock, who runs a screen-printing business, was dismissed from the jury.

But he later wrote on his Facebook page: ‘Score…I got dismissed!! apparently they frown upon sending a friend request to the defendant… ha ha.’

The comments angered trial judge Nancy Donnellan, who ordered that Jock be charged with contempt of court.

‘I cannot think of a more insidious threat to the erosion of democracy than citizens who do not care,’ she said.

During his trial, Jock claimed he made a mistake when he sent the friend request to the attractive defendant.

He said that after lawyers asked potential jurors whether they knew anyone involved in the case he looked to see if she was among his 1,300 friends on the social networking site.

He said when her picture came up on his cell phone, he tried to push the ‘mutual friends’ button to refresh his memory, but instead he hit ‘friend request’.

‘I didn’t think it was a big deal,’ he said. ‘I didn’t think I would get picked for the jury’.

Jock said he knew the request would be sent to Milerman and regretted that he didn’t mention it during the jury selection process that ended with him on the seven-member panel.

‘I was just hoping she'd forget about it,’ Jock said. ‘It was a total mistake ... I kind of thought what happened wasn't that big a deal. Little did I know.’