By Alex Tresniowski Originally posted Saturday July 04, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Lori Drew and Megan Meier Photo by: Mario Anzuoni / Reuters / Landov; BARM / Fame Pictures Lori Drew says justice was finally served – though nearly three years late. The defendant in the case of a MySpace hoax that ended in a girl's suicide applauded a federal judge for tentatively dismissing her conviction that could have resulted in up to three years in prison. "In my view, it was proper that this case was dismissed, primarily because I simply did not do what the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles accused me of doing," Drew, 49, said in a statement Friday. Drew was convicted last November on three misdemeanor charges. Prosecutors had argued that Drew and an accomplice, who was granted immunity, pretended to be a teenage boy named Josh, and used that... [read full story]
