| Bill Jonas on Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:10:10 +0100 |
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:48:25PM -0500, Charles Stack wrote: > Now, what will be interesting is the upcoming court battle on whether > reading someone's e-mail without a warrant violates wire-tapping law. This > is currently being reviewed by the PA courts. Actually, it's my understanding that the case doesn't really cover wiretapping at all. The man in question is an ex-cop. (I believe he was fired after being convicted of the crime in question.) He started chatting with and emailing a 15-year-old girl. He sent her a nude photograph of himself and requested a nude video of her, then asked her for sex. She then turned over the email in question to the police, who then investigated. In the course of that investigation, he made explicit comments to an investigator posing as a different 15-year-old girl. He was tried and convicted of criminal solicitation and served six months' house arrest and some amount of probation. He's appealing to the PA State Supreme court with the assertion that the police should have obtained a warrant before *looking* at the email. Note that it was brought to them; they didn't seek it out. A couple articles about the case: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5proettofeb15.story http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/20/1434249&mode=nested&tid=158 -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ Developer/SysAdmin for hire! See http://www.billjonas.com/resume.html Attachment:
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