Re: [PLUG] Really Cheesy....but...

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

At 02:01 AM 2/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> 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.

Plus the government is treated differently than business under the law. 
(The law is more restrictive on government searches.)



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