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Re:3rd Circuit vacates Weev's conviction [pdf] by tptacek on Friday April 11, 2014 @11:30AM (#7573445)
Didn't their most important charge rely on the "in the commission of a felony" accelerator? Didn't that felony rely on NJ state law? Didn't this case just limit their ability to pull the laws of arbitrary states out of their asses for making similar claims in the future?
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Re:3rd Circuit vacates Weev's conviction [pdf] by rdl on Friday April 11, 2014 @11:33AM (#7573478)
True. (although they can probably find other felonies to invoke, and maybe there will be an effort to get more state to adopt whacko versions of CFAA...)
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