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"Cyberbully" Lori Drew scheduled to be sentenced in federal court this afternoon

By Douglas A. Berman

This AP article, headlined "Sentencing scheduled for Mo. mom in MySpace hoax," reports that the rescheduled sentencing of Loi Drew is slated for this afternoon.  This ABCNews feature provides some of the pre-sentencing basics: U.S. District Judge George Wu had earlier postponed Drew's sentencing, saying he wanted to review testimony by prosecution witnesses.... Drew was convicted in November of three misdemeanor counts of unauthorized access to computers for violating MySpace's terms of service. She was acquitted of more serious felony charges of intentionally causing emotional harm while accessing computers without authorization. She was charged in Los Angeles because MySpace's computer servers are based there. Federal prosecutors charged Drew under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which bans unauthorized access to computers and has previously been used to combat computer hacking, for violating MySpace's terms of service...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 02, 2009 (boomark / email).