Commonwealth v. Werner

After the defendant, Clare Werner, was convicted at a jury trial of twelve counts of larceny in excess of $250, in *690violation of G. L. c. 266, § 30(1), her defense counsel visited Facebook, a social networking Web site, and reviewed public postings by two jurors made during and after the trial concerning their jury service, as well as the responses to those postings. The primary argument in this consolidated appeal from the defendant’s convictions and from the denial of her new trial motion is that the Facebook postings and responses raised the possibility that the jurors may have been exposed…