Posted by Richard Koman @ July 2, 2009 @ 10:27 PM Categories: Courts, Cybercrime Tags: It looks like Lori Drew - the too-involved-in-her-daughter’s-social-problems mom whose MySpace fraud led 13-year-old Megan Meier to kill herself - will go free after all. A federal jury convicted Drew last year on three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud. But on Thursday, the judge in the case tentatively threw out the conviction, the L.A. Times reports. The dismissal isn’t final until the U.S. District Judge George H. Wu issues a final ruling. U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O’Brien bemoaned the judge’s decision: “We call it cyber-bullying and we don’t have a law to address it,” he said at a news conference. The original prosecution under computer fraud laws was based on the idea that by creating a fake MySpace persona - one “Josh” - Drew violated... [read full story]
