Posted on 04/30/2010 7:56:15 AM PDT by SmithL
KNOXVILLE - Jurors in the trial of accused Sarah Palin e-mail intruder David C. Kernell were this morning urged to reach a complete verdict in the case.
The jurors began their fourth day of deliberations by hearing a special added instruction from U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Phillips.
Called an Allen charge in legal parlance, it is commonly called "a dynamite charge."
Phillips told the jurors that as they resume deliberating they should each reconsider their positions, but there was no need to rush to a verdict.
The jurors reported shortly before 9 a.m. and then retired to resume deliberations about 9:10 a.m.
By Thursday, they had reached unanimous agreement on three of the four counts against Kornell, 22.
Those verdicts were not announced.
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I smell probation and community service.
50 years sounds fine to me.
If they are hung, just try him again. The government has sufficient tricks and power to maintain that sort of action for a person’s lifetime.
They came back quick on the first three, so I don’t know if they’re inclined towards sympathy.
“””””I smell probation and community service......for Palin.
It’s her fault for having a private email account, you know.
I perceive the problem here to be that Sarah Palin was not “ready” to manage her own email account.
She requires many more years of “seasoning and experience” before she “qualifies” for possibly having her own account.
I could go for five years if he spends at least 18 months behind bars. Not a day less...felony conviction, at least 5 years probation, no computer usage at all for the duration. Yep, that should suffice. I don’t want blood or anything.
Prediction. This guy is gonna walk and it’s not about wheather he broke the law or not. That has been well established. People either love Palin or they hate her and this jury will reflect that and only that. JMHO.
imho, it’s GUILTY on the three other counts, but even I can’t find where he tried to do identity theft.
p.s. - I hope i’m wrong.
Someone said she said she could email Russia from her house!
Only hung on one charge. The identity theft. Just doesn’t seem to meet the typical definition of identity theft, IMHO.
If somebody logs on and says they’re me, isn’t that identity theft? It should be.
The four charges, all felonies, are: identity theft, wire fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and destruction of records to hamper a federal investigation."
If he gets community service for three felonies, something is seriously broke. Hopefully this punk end ups in a gray bar community where he gets community serviced!
so if they log on to your banking accounts what would YOU call it? email, banking, FR account....it’s still falsely using your identity.
In my opinion, when one unlawfully accesses a personal email account where there are passwords etc to other personal accounts (bank accounts etc), that could be at least construed as the intent to commit identity theft. If this guy went so far as to access one account, which he did, why not deduce that his intent was to also access other accounts with the information he found there? His goal was to cause damage, and there is no reason to think that he was going to stop with just one effort.
I don’t know if there were any of those details in Palin’s account, but the talk of pictures etc leads me to believe there may have been. And I also don’t know if the accused did see any passwords or personal information to other accounts. So just speculating along with the rest of the interested folks here.
That’s the way I see it, your password is like your
pin number etc. as far as the computer is concerned
it IS you.
These are federal charges?
If so he will do every day of them.
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