| 1 more reason to live a clean life(at least in public) »news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080718/ap_···idence_2
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook. And that offered remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton's drunken-driving case.
Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two years in prison. This clown thought he was untouchable. But do something in public and it can end up online and be subpoenaed by police.
In this case, someone else did him in. But so many people put their own data and pics online and that comes back to bite them later on - especially when applying for jobs.
The above link shows how others also got extra years in jail for ignoring their own defense attorneys advice to pull down web pages.
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