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MySpace sentencing enhancement

It is a modern day cliche to warn persons to be careful about what they put online for the world to see.  But this NPR story on “Day to Day” give this cliche a fascinating new sentencing twist.  Here is the NPR teaser:

Darryl Perlin is the Senior District Attorney in Santa Barbara County, California who used a MySpace.com page in court to plead for a longer sentence for a defendant.  Perlin talks to Alex Cohen.

The full audio story indicates that a defendant convicted of manslaughter as a result causing a death while drunk driving MySpaced her way to an additional two years in prison by posting pictures and comments suggesting she was not at all remorseful for her crime.