Guy Faces Five Years In Prison For Reading Wife's Email
DirtySanchez
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Could someone face prison time for snooping through a spouse's e-mails?
For Leon Walker of Michigan, the answer was yes.
Suspecting that his wife was involved with another man, and worried that it was affecting their daughter, Walker logged into Clara Walker's Gmail account last summer.
Walker, 33, said it was easy for him to log in because his wife kept the password in a book next to the computer.
"I definitely felt it was OK to confirm [the affair] by reading her e-mail in our home," said Walker.
While Walker believed it was OK, Oakland County prosecutors did not and have charged Walker with felony misuse of a computer. If convicted, he could face up to five years in prison.
This is Michigan's first criminal prosecution for snooping through a spouse's e-mails. So far, two Michigan judges have refused to toss out the charges in the potentially precedent-setting case.
"It's outrageous. It's insane," Walker, who is now divorced, told ABC News.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/email-snooping-wife-brings-michigan-man-felony-computer/story?id=12488956&page=1
What a load of bullshit. 5 years? He has every right to look through the bitches computer and it's between them not the law. Stupid fucking prosecutors.
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What would he have gotten if he had assaulted here? life?
This made me laugh my ass off dude, thanks
That's just the maximum penalty if found guilty. He'll probably get a much lighter sentence, if he is found guilty. Trying him sure is a waste of tax payer money though, he has every right to investigate his spouse if he suspects she's cheating on him. The government should play no part in this.
Kinda makes you wonder if the prosecutor has nothing else better to do than waste the taxpayer's money on this when clearly any half-wit defense attorney will see this for what it is then tear the prosecutor's case apart.
The legal precedent that a guilty verdict in this case would set would have long reaching ramification within every business in America. No longer would companies be legally permitted to have policies which state that there is no expectation of privacy with company based email addresses. If this man is convicted then the precedent would not allow a company to view an individuals emails at work without the express permission of the employee, even if the company had the users password (which in all enterprise environments does not happen).
This is a case of a computer illiterate prosecutor who has a hard on for men. I mean seriously, have you seen a picture of Oakland County prosecutor Jessica Cooper? The bitch looks like she has not had dick in 20 years.
P.S. The OP is a moron.