Report: Palin e-mail snooping jury deadlocked (on only one charge)

Source: Computerworld

The Knoxville News Sentinel reported this afternoon that the jury, which is in its third day of deliberations, has deadlocked on the first count, a charge of identity theft.

The jury has reached a verdict on the other three charges -- wire fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and destruction of records to hamper a federal investigation. All but the unlawfully accessing count are felonies under federal law.

Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176146/Report_Palin_e_mail_snooping_jury_deadlocked?taxonomyId=86

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Looks bad.

$M these days which would make an attractive target for those who are in that line of business.

And Tina Fey - are you saying she's crazy?

acquittal. The jury has decided on three of the charges, the most bogus one has them deadlocked. The government convicts 95% of the time.


We don't know for sure what the jury decided, but we can take an educated guess.

And if it was a young republican that had broken into a democrat's email, people around here would be outraged.

Sure, it sucks for him, but that's the law. Just because it's easy to break in doesn't mean it's any less illegal.

but only a loon would believe he ought to spend decades in jail for it.

Get a grip, no one says the kid shouldn't be punished, but this is unjust.

See post no 3.

Trying to compare that to an actual political party or corporate email account is silly. Anyone could have set up that account, and anyone can access it from any terminal. Guessing a password to a web-based email account is nothing like breaking in to a private server. The people deciding on the constitutionality of laws in this country recently asked "what's the difference between email and a pager?" (John Roberts), and I'm supposed to have any respect for "the rule of law" in the electronic domain? The people in our government who make and interpret these laws have no fucking idea what they're dealing with - literally, fucking "series of tubes" no idea - so I don't respect them.

It does however make it stupid for the owner--like leaving an expensive next generation iphone on a barstool while you run to the restroom. If you come back and find it's gone, you were foolish for leaving it there, but the person who took it still stole it.

When the Democrats computers were hacked back when Bush was pretzledent in 2004. However, I don't recall anyone ever being held accountable for it.

From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what tactics.

http://notes.kateva.org/2004/01/boston-globe-senate-republicans-hack.html
Just because it's easy, doesn't make it any less illegal, right?
Perhaps this guy should suffer the same punishment?

He would have a well connected father who would have made sure that none of these charges ever saw the light of day.

He DOES have a well-connected father. His father is a state senator or rep or something.

Sorry, this kid needs to have his comeuppance.

Psuedopimp acorn guy, the Climate email hackers, and the guys breaking into Landreu's office all get theirs.

Oh.. And the kid who stole all the democratic campaign signs. And the bush twins.

But first, perhaps Vitter, Delay, et al could get their comeuppance.

Or are those all just not as important as one kid who managed to guess the password to Sarah Palins secondary, questionably ethical/legal email, for which you presumably believe that she should also receive comeuppance?



This guy should get the same comeuppance that half the kids in my dorm got when they managed to guess their roommates password and set dwarf porn pictures as their desktops and homepage. Cause this is definitely not worse than that.

A Plea agreement?

reportedly required him to plead guilty to four felonies. He's slightly better off with a conviction on three. He can also appeal this, where a guilty plea is forever.

If he's not careful he might come close to doing as much time as you would get for bugging a US Senators office.

Requires intent. This person was only trying to embarrass Palin. I have seen nothing to indicate that this person had the necessary intent. Even if found guilty I would think that this charge could be successfully appealed. The other 3 charges are problematic. While this kid probably knew fully well what he was doing was wrong I'm sure he was not aware of the laws covering his action nor the penalities involved. In fact, he probably saw the other side doing similar things and not getting caught so he thought it was no big deal even though it was wrong. Let's see if this causes O'Keefe and company get their justice.

the felony charge was reduced to a misdemeanor.

This is sicking. He'll spend 10+ years in jail for this harmless stunt, and the guy that broke into my neighbor's house, while my neighbor was home, who pages of priors, will get less than a year. Who is the greater threat to society? Why would we waste money on this excessive prosecution?

To add insult to injury, Sarah Palin and her daughter lied, or exaggerated, the extent of the inconvenience this intrusion caused them to prove an element of the crime. Shameful.

Part goes to his statement that he was trying to derail her candidacy.

unsecure yahoo account for state business in order to avoid state disclosure laws. She was doing that, but because she's special, there aren't consequences.

We really hope they reach a verdict tomorrow. We had expected it today and had to change our A1 plans.

your headlines.

is that part of this trial, that Sarah apparently destroyed all evidence?