Husband Says Wife Cheated, But He's Charged With Felony After Reading Her E-Mail
A Michigan man is facing a felony trial for admittedly reading his wife’s e-mail in an effort to determine whether his suspicion that she might be having an affair was justified.
By doing so, Leon Walker says, he found out she was indeed having an affair. But he also wound up charged with a felony, for allegedly gaining unauthorized access to her e-mail account, reports the Oakland Press.
He says he did some snooping to find her password, which she had previously given him.
Her lawyer says it’s highly unlikely she would have done so.
His lawyer says Walker was inappropriately charged under a statute that was supposed to apply to computer hacking, not looking at a spouse’s e-mail account, the newspaper recounts.
A jury apparently is likely to decide the question: Walker is scheduled to go to trial on Feb. 7 on a charge of unauthorized access to a computer. If convicted, he faces a maximum five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
“I feel very strongly that I’ll be exonerated,” Walker tells the Press.
