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No appeal of dismissed conviction in MySpace case
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
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Prosecutors say they will not appeal the dismissal of a woman's convictions in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide. Friday's announcement effectively ends the case against Lori Drew. Federal Judge George Wu threw out Drew's...
Tags: Megan Meier, Lori Drew, Los Angeles, Suicide of Megan Meier, Meier, Conviction, Obscenity, Human Interest, Bullying, MySpace, Psychological abuse, Law Crime
Censoring the Internet
Imagine that you have a large homework assignment based on research that you have to do. You hurry home, or to the nearest library, and you go straight to the computer. You open the Internet Explorer and go to the page in...
Tags: Internet, Censorship, internet censorship, roy lister, first amendment, Megan Meier, Iran, Ayatollah, Khamenei, Constitution, Parental Control Programs, Robert Zakon, domains, Parental
MySpace suicide case conviction overturned
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility A federal judge tentatively overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman accused of using MySpace to deceive a teenage girl who eventually committed suicide, a U.S. attorney's spokesman told CNN. A jury convicted Lori Drew, 49, of O'Fallon, Missouri,...
Tags: Lori Drew, Mrs Drew, Missouri, federal judge, Megan Meier, commit suicide, misdemeanor counts
Woman found guilty of misdemeanor in MySpace trial
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 12 months ago
Credibility A Missouri woman was found guilty of misdemeanor computer fraud for posing as a teenage boy on News Corp. ’s MySpace Web site and acquitted of more serious charges she did so to harm a 13-year-old girl who later killed herself. A federal jury in Los...
Tags: Megan Meier, Lori Drew, Los Angeles
Guilty verdicts in MySpace suicide case
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Drew was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on Meier...District Judge George Wu declared a mistrial on a fourth count of conspiracy...
Tags: Lori Drew, Megan Meier, myspace suicidal, missouri mother, Missouri, accessing computers, suicidal case, illegally accessing, bullies case, guilty verdict
Jury to deliberate in MySpace suicide case
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Prosecutors told jurors that 49-year-old Lori Drew posed as a teenage boy on the social networking website to tease and humiliate 13-year-old Megan Meier. They said Drew was upset that Meier had called her daughter names and had come up with the plan...
Tags: Lori Drew Case Rests, Megan Meier, Missouri, MySpace, closing arguments, myspace hoax, missouri woman, suicide case, Sarah, begin deliberating
Witness admits deadly online prank
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A young woman testified about posing as a teenage boy in a series of e-mail messages that ended in a 13-year-old girl's suicide, officials said. "You're the kind of boy a girl would kill herself over," Ashley Grills , 20, told a Los Angeles federal court...
Tags: Megan Meier
Trial Begins in Fatal Cyber-Bullying Case
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Trial started Wednesday in a cyber-bullying trial with a federal prosecutor asking a Los Angeles jury to find that a Missouri woman "hatched a plot to prey on the psyche of a 13-year-old girl" that ended in suicide...Attorney Thomas O'Brien said Lori...
Tags: tragic death, Megan Meier, Lori Drew, social networks, Missouri, Ms Drew, old boy, missouri woman, old daughter, committed suicide
Trial starts in 'cyberbully' suicide
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Lori Drew , formerly of Dardenne Prairie, faces charges of illegally accessing a protected computer by creating a fake Internet admirer for 13-year-old neighbor Megan Meier , who hanged herself in 2006 after Drew taunted her on her MySpace page through...
Tags: Lori Drew, Missouri, Megan Meier, trial starts, myspace hoax, social networking
Mo. lawmakers vote to bar Internet harassment
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Responding to the suicide of a Missouri teenager who was teased over the Internet, state lawmakers Friday gave final approval to a bill making cyber harassment illegal...The bill updates state laws against harassment to keep pace with technology by removing...
Tags: Missouri, Megan Meier, missouri teenager, social networking, old boy
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