Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Update on Amero

Everyone once in a while, justice prevails. Julie Amero, the substitute teacher who faced 40 years in prison for risking injury to children when a computer in her class was bombarded by pornography, has just been granted a new trial. Her claim that she was unable to control the pornographic images that popped up did not deter her prosecution or sway the jury in her case but did persuade an array of experts to denounce her conviction, to good effect. She is not expected to be re-tried.

criminal justice | education | pornography

6/6/2007 5:33:56 PM by Wendy Kaminer | Comments [1] |
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:26:24 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

As you've written about, there are other cases similar to this. (http://www.justice4matt.com/)

The porn cases make the press, but there are also just lots of cases where I will say that otherwise good intentioned people just believe the most bogus stuff out there about computers and how computers operate and what can be expected from laymen, and what can be expected from companies.

Often times, the bad behavior from a company is allowed, and results on accusations, legal charges, and punishment of the ordinary defenseless citizen.

We can see this in the many many cases in which schools, government officials, and company executives have gone ballistic over what they believe to be horrible incidents of computer vandalism that really are anything but that.

Minor incidents that demean the implications of "real crime." Like comparing Julie Amero the "pornographer" with a real child pornographer.

jerry

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