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Civil Liberties

Judge Orders Woman to Delete Facebook Comments About Crash

Gives her two-day jail sentence for contempt when she does not comply

Reason Staff | 9.17.2012 6:00 PM

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A woman was jailed after ignoring a judge's order to delete her Facebook account after comments she made on the site about her own reckless driving prompted the order.

According to Louisville, Ky., NBC affiliate WAVE, victims of a hit-and-run car accident, in which Paula Asher was allegedly at fault, were so upset by her post that the court had to step in. "My dumb (expletive) got a dui and I hit a car…lol," Asher wrote on her Facebook profile soon after the incident took place.

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