Because the problem is clearly the "evil hacker jason" and not the ridiculousness of the laws in which severity of punishment is entirely inconsistent with any tangible damages?
I think people forget that it's their tax-payer money being used to ruin's someone else's life.
If it's so simple then why do you have a conviction? To me, your comment reads like "I didn't get fair treatment so neither should he!"
That's not how we move forward.
So, to paraphrase, I've read this indictment three times and I still have no idea what happened. So it's not really an authoritative narrative of events, either, and doesn't put any of the questions raised in the petition to rest. In another comment you asked someone if they would say the same thing after reading the indictment, and my answer would be absolutely, if not more so. I'm not sure why it would make you feel any more like this is a reasonable application of computer laws instead of, say, evidence that the San Jose US Attorney's office has too many lawyers and needs to be down-sized.
EDIT: These definitely shed the true light on what is happening here. This no longer appears to be the he wouldn't let me use my WiFi case as the petition attempts to portray. Thank you again for posting.
The difference between me and whoever the person advocating for this guy is, is that I know how to use PACER and am willing to pay to investigate claims like this. Honestly, I wanted to read the indictment because the horribly-written petition left me confused, but indeed, the petition leaves out quite a bit of the story. That includes the guy signing back up for Hacker Dojo under a false name after being banned, his grand total of one day being a member of Hacker Dojo, and completely omitting the attorney that he retained privately (and who quit not long after due to a "breakdown of communication"; puts perspective on raising a legal defense).
By the indictment, which went before a grand jury, by the way, it sounds like he signed up as "Ad Min," got banned, signed up as "Dallas Smith," got banned again (probably), then threw a hissy a month or so later and packeted Hacker Dojo. Poor guy indeed. Who attacks Hacker Dojo?
5:14-cr-00114-EJD, United States of America v. Jason David Miller.
Grand Jury Indictment: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6121606/hackerdojo/indic...
Order to Seal (since lifted): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6121606/hackerdojo/seal....
Continuance so Miller can retain counsel: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6121606/hackerdojo/subin...
Status hearing where Miller's attorney subs in: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6121606/hackerdojo/couns...
Withdrawal of Miller's attorney ten days later: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6121606/hackerdojo/withd...
Full history: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6121606/hackerdojo/histo...
This is all public information. I paid $2.60 to look it up, and you can too -- sign up for PACER. Federal court is really simple if you know how to look, it's the state courts that tend to be harder and require a physical presence.
EDIT: I edited out my speculation once I had the indictment, and extend apologies to the commenters who wanted to engage it.