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Prosecutors Myspace-suicide case demand three year sentence
By Fabio on Thursday May 7th 2009 05:27 | Category: Web
The prosecutors in the case against Lori Drew, drove a 13-year neigbour to suicide through a fictional character on MySpace, want them for three years starting from the prison, while the rehabilitation of imprisonment not necessary.
In 2006, the now 50-year-old American Lori Drew a profile on MySpace that they occurred as' Josh ', a 16-year-old boy. This papte them with a buurmeisje, the 13-year-old Megan Meier. After a while she broke the relationship with a number of hateful messages, including a message to Megan that the world would be better off without her. This was the girl committed suicide.
When the case came to light was the great indignation and Justice decided to Drew to justice. In Missouri, where the drama had been played, there is no law against cyber bullying and it was not federal law. The prosecutors decided therefore to Drew to complain because of hacking. She had false personal data filled in and that was against the terms and conditions of MySpace. According to prosecutors, this was tantamount to hacking, an offense with five years in prison on it.
The jury refused to follow this argument and convicted Drew only three cases of 'unauthorized access to a computer, where up to one year imprisonment on it. Now the court must determine the sentence, the prosecutors asked for the maximum penalty of one year per violation, a total of three years, reports Wired.
The probation, however, points out that according to the guidelines sentence in this case a sentence of zero to six months is considered appropriate. The recommendation is ondertoezichtstelling and 5000 dollar fine. It is considered that Drew has not previously been convicted. According to prosecutors, in this case, however, to depart from the guidelines, because the violations resulted in the death of the girl. They also suggest that the Supreme Court already has permitted to unproven charges that were stated or into account in sentencing.
The ultimate penalty will be May 18 by Judge George Wu to be determined. He will also consider a request for acquittal of Drew's lawyer, because there has never been proven that the woman knew the terms of use of Myspace or intentional schond. If the judge agrees to it, Drew is free.
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