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Federal Judge Plans to Acquit Mom Convicted in Landmark Cyberbullying Case
A federal judge in Los Angeles reportedly has said he intends to acquit a Missouri mother accused of helping to drive a neighboring teen to suicide by participating in a hoax on the MySpace social networking site.
Lori Drew was cleared of more serious charges but convicted by a federal jury in Los Angeles last year of misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization. However, interpreting the federal law under which she was found guilty in this manner, says U.S. District Judge George Wu, would mean that anyone who has ever violated a website's terms of service could be found guilty of a crime, reports the Associated Press.
Wu's acquittal of Drew (presumably by issuing a rare… Continue reading...
