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.