And yet, for the fully modern being, not being able to tweet or otherwise ” share” – feelings, opinions, thoughts, jokes, links to cat videos or pictures of dinner – for even an hour is akin to eternal exile in the desert, and hence in part the rising tide of juror-caused mistrials across the planet

And yet, for the fully modern being, not being able to tweet or otherwise ” share” – feelings, opinions, thoughts, jokes, links to cat videos or pictures of dinner – for even an hour is akin to eternal exile in the desert, and hence in part the rising tide of juror-caused mistrials across the planet (Christie Blatchford, Life Sentence: Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting — or, How I Fell Out of Love with the Canadian Justice System)