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So after all of this she is free without anything? - Page 2 - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 3rd Jul, 2009 - 6:17pm
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Us 'cyber-bully' Mother Indicted - Page 2
A judge tentatively threw out the convictions in her participation in the suicide of the young girl.
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| In his ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge George Wu acquitted Lori Drew of misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization. Wu says his ruling will become final when he issues it in writing. Drew was convicted in a trial in November, but the judge says that if she is to be found guilty of illegally accessing computers, anyone who has ever violated the social networking site's terms of service would be guilty of a misdemeanor. Prosecutors had sought the maximum three-year prison sentence and a $300,000 fine. A defense motion to dismiss the convictions has received a lengthy review from Wu, who delayed Drew's sentencing in May to review the testimony of two prosecution witnesses. Much attention has been paid to Drew's case, primarily because it was the nation's first cyberbullying trial. Prosecutors say Drew sought to humiliate Megan Meier by helping create a fictitious teen boy on the social networking site and sending flirtatious messages to the girl in his name. The fake boy then dumped Megan in a message saying the world would be better without her. She hanged herself a short time later in October 2006 in the St. Louis suburb of Dardenne Prairie, Mo. Drew was not directly charged with causing Megan's death. Instead, prosecutors indicted her under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which in the past has been used in hacking and trademark theft cases. Drew's attorney, Dean Steward, said charges should have never been brought against his client and prosecution's decision to seek a three-year prison sentence for misdemeanor convictions was "shocking." "The government's case is all about making Lori Drew a public symbol of cyberbullying," Steward said in a previous court filing. "The government has created a fiction that Lori Drew somehow caused (Megan's) death, and it wants a long prison sentence to make its fiction seem real." |
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So after all of this she is free without anything? She should get a big fine or community service or something.
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