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By Robert Todd | Publication Date: Monday, 02 November 2009
A recent criminal case in Ontario has called attention to the role social media is playing in landing people in legal hot water.
The case involved a pair of women charged with robbing a home last year in Kitchener, Ont. The two women, both in their early 20s, might have gotten away with it if not for a questionable decision to post a photo of themselves with their loot online.
Lawyer Jon Graham, who represented Michele Nolan, tells Law Times his client posted photos of stolen jewellery on the social networking web site Facebook.
Graham says his client and a co-accused were caught after the latter sold one of three laptops. The buyer had trouble installing a program on the computer, says Graham, and managed to find the registered owner to try to fix the problem.
The owner then got the seller's name from the buyer and conducted a search for her on Facebook, Graham adds, noting the victims then found photos of the pair with what appeared to be the stolen items.
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