Wikipedia search voids murder conviction   

Posted: 7:00 pm Sun, December 6, 2009
By Steve Lash

A Maryland appeals court has overturned a first-degree felony-murder conviction because a deliberating juror had conducted an online search of scientific terms related to how blood flows after death. The juror’s Wikipedia search denied Allan Jake Clark a fair trial because “the right to an impartial jury embraces the right to have the case decided ...