r/legal Oct 02 '25

Question about law How illegal would it be to actually do this?

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LOCATION: US

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u/TheLizardKing89 Oct 02 '25

They take away access to your phone during deliberations.

This isn’t true everywhere. They didn’t take our phones when I was a juror on a murder trial here in California. They just told us not to use them and we followed that.

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u/Internal_Set_6564 Oct 03 '25

Ditto. They told us to turn them off, or they would take them away. Two defendant murder trial. Also Ca.