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Congrats to Julie. It's been a very long ordeal for such a spurious charge.
It;s a shame she had to cop to the misdemeanor, as from all I have heard, she did nothing wrong. She probably has a whopper of a civil suit if she wants to go through the BS, again.
COULD have been better, say for instance if someone had ... ok, sorry, violence against an idiotic prosecutor is stupid, and I apologize for even thinking it. I just can't understand how they wouldn't just drop the charges.
At least she is free of the whole thing.
Probably already has plans to move out of state - I sure would.
Finally those technophobe wanks have let this poor woman go free. I'd sure like to examine their computers and see how much "porn" I can find. :|
I agree with The Dean that it is indeed a shame that Julie had to plead anything except innocent. However, to have this nightmare behind her, I can certainly understand that compromise.
Alex, thanks also to you for what you did for Julie and others like her that we may never hear about. You are truly a White Knight.
This whole thing eats holes in me. I've been a cop, a public school substitute teacher, and I work on computers every day. I'm afraid this is only going to get worse in our world. When civilization fails to do right, when it turns to doing evil, Derrill's unspoken thoughts can hardly be suppressed. That prosecutor has no claim to moral high ground. His existence and continued "service" is a stain, the proof we have failed.
Someone should run against this prosecutor on the grounds that he doesn't understand as much about computers as most high school students. He may know the law, but he is clueless about technology. That she had to plead guilty to anything is a gross travesty of justice and, in my mind, is reason enough for the prosecutor to never, ever practice law again.
I hope she makes about a gazillion dollars on a book deal.
That's one of the many problems with the justice system, rarely is there ever true justice.
I have no doubt in my mind that the prosecutor knew she was innocent but he saw a great opportunity to advance his carrer, and putting a child monster away is a great way to advance one's carrer. Unfortunately I really do believe this was crush someone who's innocent for carrer advancement.
Just found out about this. You guys all did an awesome thing. Thank you.
Julie's attorney may not have wanted to put her through all that -- but she'll go through it all over again the next time she applies for any job anywhere.
She's got a conviction on her record.
Denied. Sorry, the position is filled.
Despite what the state may say, that will follow you wherever you go.
No way a jury would have convicted, but with juries, you just never know sometimes.
Americans are cunts, bothering about things that don't matter
Why hasn't anyone looked at where these porn popups came from in the first place. I'm sorry but porn popups do not come from newdotnet and halloween screensaves. I guarantee you that the guy who was using this computer before Julie was shitting his pants after this case was revealed. Porn popups and porn spyware come from PORN SURFING.
I certainly hope that Ms. Amero will pursue a pardon--there is a nonprofit group called the Connecticut Pardon Team that may be able to help.
On the level of ridiculous optimism, I dream that our new, tech-savvy President might pardon her...
The 'declining health' comment worries me. I hope she will be OK. If I were her, I'd be changing my name and moving to the West coast.
This case has been awful. I can see why a $100 fine seemed like the easiest way to make it all go away and I'm sure I'd have taken the same route, but at the same time, letting it go like this keeps the system broken. It seems to me that the prosecution committed perjury in the original trial. Why should that go un-investigated and un-punished?
She was only a substitute teacher... was anything done to investigate whether it was the main user of the computer that had infected it with all this ad ware and pop ups?
At least there were people who believed her and were prepared to help clear her name pro bono. Well done to the legal team.
I'm glad that Julie somewhat prevailed. I do understand the motivation of getting it over with and having the thing just "go away" but it just sits "wrong" with me that the court gets away with even the smallest victory of $100 fine and conviction of a disorderly conduct charge in this case.
She was/is innocent.
If they want to convict someone, go after the school district for incompetence resulting in endangerment to it's employees and students.
Alex, I'm sorry to hear that Ms. Amero had to plea to a class C misdemeanor and give up her teaching certificate. getting another certificate in another state may be difficult under the circumstances. Also obtaining employment with some employers might be difficult as well.
We have a case here in Spring Texas that has common threads with Mrs. Amero's case.
Klein Oak High School in Klein ISD issues laptops (actually ruggedized Tablet PC's) to all the kids (and makes the parents pay insurance for them). The school is a WiFi hotspot and all the PC's connect wirelessly to the school district's network. (note this is the same network that the school administrators use, not a separate network.) Someone left a file with several thousand employees personal information in it in an unsecured directory. One of the kids found the file, opened it, realized what it was and downloaded it to his thumb drive and bragged that he was going to make a mint using phony credit cards with the info. This may or may not have been a credible threat, but be that as it may. the problem was that the file was left unsecured where kids (who are by definition not the most mature individuals) could get to it. Surely some of them would realize the value of the data they just tumbled upon if used nefariously.
http://www.bloghouston.net/forum...5755&
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The school and the school board is negligent in this case. They did not install the proper anti-spam software nor did they use any software to prevent anyone from getting onto porn sites. I hope she gets her health back and sues them for this.
Another thing that the school failed to do was ensure that the screensaver was activated.
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