British teen cleared in 'e-mail bomb' case

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Not possible....

A private prosecution wouldn't be possible in this case. He's already faced criminal charges (brought by the CPS) and has been found not guilty. Even if they were allowed to try the same charges privately, the defence would cite the ruling in the first case as prescedence, and he'd be found not guilty again.

Other than the appeal (which is mentioned in the story) the only option is to find some other grounds for different criminal or civil action, and I can't think of anything obvious which wouldn't get dismissed.

The appeal may actually get somewhere with the right judge - looking at each of the messages on a one-by-one basis is obviously an inappropriate way of looking at this, and when taken collectively it is clear that he knew at the time that the access he was securing was not what they had in mind for the mail server, and would therefore not be authorised...

Posted by: gridzero   Posted on: 11/03/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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