If you can't do the time, don't post photos on Facebook celebrating the crime. That's the harsh lesson 20-year-old college student Joshua Lipton learned after a judge handed him a two-year sentence for severely injuring a woman while driving drunk. Photographs on Facebook of Lipton partying in an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird" proved he was without remorse, a prosecutor argued, and the judge agreed, calling them depraved. Lipton's attorney, Kevin Bristow, argued that the photos showed Lipton's confusion after the accident and noted that he'd written apologetic letters to the crash victim and her family. Right. What we suspect really confused Lipton: The idea that anyone over the age of 21 might actually know how to use Facebook.

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