Friends mourn hiker after body recovered
SEATTLE – Friends on Sunday mourned a well-known outdoors writer and photographer who had been missing for three days in Mount Rainier National Park before searchers said they recovered a body of a woman.
The National Park Service said it will be up to the Pierce County medical examiner to confirm the body found Saturday afternoon was that of 70-year-old Karen Sykes of Seattle. It was discovered in an area where searchers were looking for Sykes, and they ended the three-day rescue effort after finding it.
“For a lot of local hikers, it’s an extreme loss,” said Greg Johnston, who edited a “Trail of the Week” column Sykes wrote for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “For decades, she showed us the way, and now that’s gone.”
Sykes was prominent in the Pacific Northwest hiking community for her trail reviews and photographs, for her book on hiking western Washington state and for leading group outings. Friends said she found sanctuary in the wilderness.
ABA: Lawyers can scour jurors’ social media
SAN FRANCISCO – Lawyers have been given the green light to scan the social media sites of jurors.
The American Bar Association says it’s ethical for lawyers to scour online for publicly available musings of citizens called for jury service – and even jurors in deliberations.
But the ABA does warn lawyers against actively “following” or “friending” jurors or otherwise invading their private Internet areas.
Though judges now universally admonish jurors to refrain from discussing trials on social media, the nationwide lawyers group for the first time is addressing how deeply attorneys, their investigators and their consultants can probe for information that might signal leanings of potential jurors or unearth juror misconduct during trials.
Associated Press
