Posted on 09/23/2008 12:16:30 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
A federal grand jury in Chattanooga, Tenn., reportedly adjourned today without delivering an indictment in the hacking of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account.
The grand jury heard testimony this morning from three friends of University of Tennessee student David Kernell, according to the Chattanooga Times-Free Press, but ended its session around noon without returning an indictment.
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Is a grand jury required to indict or is some prosecutor just covering his behind?
Decent and intelligent young men do NOT do what David has done.
Today was just the beginning of testimony...
“I infer that there will be more though, ...”
That’s how I took it, too. No indictment YET. If they don’t indict, though, hold BOR back; he’s on a roll about this! Since a grand jury is made up of citizens, ya gotta hope they’ll see a slippery slope here for everyone if this little pissant gets away with it.
I'm not making any bets but I'm on record as predicting a slap on the hand and two weeks of public service. I hope I'm wrong.
If this is simply the unilateral act of a college kid, I don’t see the point of giving him a criminal record for a stupid stunt.
Did they adjourn or done? Change the venue to Alaska!
No indictment yet, it should read.
If the jury didn’t return a No Bill, the matter is still in process.
Thank you. “No indictment today” most likely means “no indictment yet.”
This is tantamount to driving up your street, taking everything out of your mailbox, and driving off. Then when the culprit gets home, he opens your mail and starts taking action based on the information he has obtained. Part of it was dialing your children’s cell phone.
This was not a harmless prank.
This kid should get the book thrown at him. If not, it’s open season on anyone on the right that the left wants to steal from and destroy.
What would your take be if some information had been outed that destroyed Palin’s viability as a candidate, even if it wasn’t even close to illegal? That very well could have happened here.
This little democrat operative should be toast.
If this is simply the unilateral act of a college kid,
Who hacked private email and made the email plus other personal information public. This is a felony, and if the guys at DU or KOS had YOUR personal communicatins, plus the guys at 4chan and Wowser or whatever it wass, you may feel differently.
You’d need new phone nos, passwords, cell phones, and other things.
It may have been a stupid stunt, but it’s as expensive and inconvenient as burning yuor car.
Nothing to see here..It’as a Democrat no crime has been committed just another funny college boy prank...
Now if he had hacked Biden’s e-mail account they would have this punk off to Leavenworth by now.....If he had dared look at Obama’s he would be in an Electric Chair...
I would still like to know if this punk can be pursued by the Palins in a civil suit?
What's one Grand Jury anyway? Hell, it took what 12, 14? before that clown in Austin got an indictment against Tom Delay.
No indictment....yet.
I am sure that under the provisions of sub, sub paragraph of the law, all criminal acts that are "unilateral acts" are exempt from any other provisions of the law.
After all, to make it a bi-lateral act, and thus become subject to the other provisions, Sara Palin would have had to specifically advise him of his rights before the "unilateral act" provision wouldn't apply.
In the Federal system, they do that too, but they also, far more often than in State Court, use the Grand Jury to futher the investigation. This kid's friends can tell the FBI or Secret Sevice to pound sand, and refuse to answer any question likely to inciminate their friend. They have to answer the questions of the Grand Jury (or the questions the Assistant US Attorney asks on behalf of the Grand Jury), or face going to jail for contempt.
No indictment after the first time a Federal Grand Jury hears from witnesses in a case is not news. An indictment would have been news, and widely condemned as a rush to judgment.
F'n with an national election, committing illegal acts, all for the purpose of destroying a candidate is not "criminal"?
Please tell me you are kidding.
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