Facebook Update Clears Teen of Armed Robbery Charge

“If it wasn’t for Facebook I’d still be on Rikers Island,” said a Brooklyn teenager who was accused of sticking up two people. Rodney Bradford spent 12 days in jail, but was later released after prosecutors determined that a status update he made to his Facebook page along with multiple eyewitness accounts placed the 19-year-old in front of a computer at his dad’s house, not at the scene of the crime. Social networking for justice! |NYP|