volokh.com - 11/24/2008
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"Judge Postpones Ruling In Lori Drew Case": Kim Zetter of Wired has the latest update in the Lori Drew case, namely that Judge Wu decided not to rule at this time on the defense's latest motion to dismiss (this one specifically raising the lack of evidence that any Terms of Service violation was ...
Lori Drew is Doomed
reason.com 11/17/2008 — As of last week, it looked like Judge George Wu would forbid any mention of Megan Meier's suicide in Lori Drew's trial . Today Wu changed his mind : Evidence from the suicide of a Missouri girl can be used by prosecutors against a woman charged with helping to create a false Internet identity ...
US attorney's office: Verdict due in MySpace case
huffingtonpost.com 11/26/2008 — LOS ANGELES — The U.S. attorney's office says a verdict is to be read in the MySpace cyber-bullying trial of a Missouri mother.
A statement issued by the prosecutors' office said the verdict would be read Wednesday morning.
Defendant Lori Drew is charged with conspiracy and ...
Lori Drew not guilty of felony ... but convicted on 3 misdemeanors.
althouse.blogspot.com 11/26/2008 — And there was a deadlock on the felony conspiracy charge. [J]urors found Drew guilty only gaining unauthorized access to MySpace for the purpose of obtaining information on Megan Meier -- a misdemeanor that potentially carries up to a year in prison, but most likely will result in no jail ...
“Jury convicts mom of lesser charges in online hoax” —
Overlawyered
“A Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyberbullying case was convicted Wednesday of only three minor offenses for her role in a mean-spirited Internet hoax that apparently drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide.” Numerous critics had assailed the prosecution of Lori Drew as based ...
Verdict in Cyberbullying Case —
Shakesville
Lori Drew, the Missouri mother on trial for her role in an internet hoax that culminated in a 13-year-old girl's suicide (background here ), has been convicted of three minor offenses, each punishable by up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Well, I guess it's something. I'd like to say I ...
No Felony for MySpace Killer —
The Latest on Air America
Via the Washington Post:
A Missouri woman who posed as a 16-year-old boy on MySpace, wooed and rejected a troubled teenage girl who later committed suicide was found guilty Wednesday of three misdemeanor charges, but no felonies, by a federal jury.
According to published reports, ...
Lori Drew Verdict —
Hit & Run
I was right about the verdict in the Lori Drew case, though I wish I had been wrong, since even misdemeanor convictions for unauthorized computer access raise the prospect that every American who uses the Internet is an accidental criminal. How many terms of service have you violated ...
Lori Drew Jury Reaches a Verdict: —
The Volokh Conspiracy
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Lori Drew Update —
Hit & Run
Before it adjourned yesterday, the jury in the Lori Drew case (the subject of my column today) indicated it had reached unanimous verdicts on three of the four charges against her but was having trouble agreeing on the fourth. Since three of the four charges (PDF) involve using MySpace ...
New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on the Lori Drew Trial —
Hit & Run
This week a federal jury in L.A. is deliberating whether to convict Lori Drew, 49, of violating a law aimed at computer hackers for her role in a MySpace prank that apparently provoked a 13-year-old girl to kill herself. Yet as Senior Editor Jacob Sullum writes, Drew is not a hacker, and ...
Lori Drew Case Goes to the Jury: —
The Volokh Conspiracy
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"Judge Postpones Ruling In Lori Drew Case": —
The Volokh Conspiracy
Kim Zetter of Wired has the latest update in the Lori Drew case, namely that Judge Wu decided not to rule at this time on the defense's latest motion to dismiss (this one specifically raising the lack of evidence that any Terms of Service violation was intentional). Our legal briefing on the ...
Mom Goes on Trial for MySpace Bullying —
Drudge Retort
Lori Drew knew her 13-year-old neighbor was depressed and suicidal when she sent cruel Internet messages to the teenager pretending to be a boy who liked her, Drew's former assistant testified at Drew's trial in California for cyberbullying. Megan Meier, a former friend of Drew's daughter, ...
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