Man faces five years in jail..... for reading wife's emails

[Analog]

Oakland County prosecutors, relying on a Michigan statute typically used to prosecute crimes such as identity theft or stealing trade secrets, have charged Leon Walker, 33, with a felony after he logged onto a laptop in the home he shared with his wife, Clara Walker.

Using her password, he accessed her Gmail account and learned she was having an affair. He now is facing a Feb. 7 trial. She filed for divorce, which was finalized earlier this month.


Legal experts say it's the first time the statute has been used in a domestic case, and it might be hard to prove


"It's going to be interesting because there are no clear legal answers here," said Frederick Lane, a Vermont attorney and nationally recognized expert who has published five books on electronic privacy. The fact that the two still were living together, and that Leon Walker had routine access to the computer, may help him, Lane said.

Is reading wife's e-mail a crime? Rochester Hills man faces trial | freep.com | Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/201012...Rochester-Hills-man-faces-trial#ixzz19HRxby3Z​

 

[Patranus]

He isn't going to be convicted of it and the prosecutor should be run out of town for trying this.

 

[zokudu]

Ridiculous it only becomes an issue when he finds out she is in the wrong.

 

[DrPizza]

wtf? My wife's blackberry has access to my email & she knows as soon as I get a new email. (Because I'm too lazy to check it myself.)

 

[techs]

Imagine the penalty for leaving the toilet seat up!

 

[moshquerade]

Man Faces Five Years in Jail—For Reading Wife's Emails

This case is a bit Jerry Springer, but interesting nonetheless. Rochester Hills man Leon Walker has been charged with unlawfully reading his wife's emails—which showed she was having an affair with her violent second husband.

Walker forwarded the emails to the woman's first husband, who is the father of her son, out of a sense of duty for the protection of the child—but now faces a possible five-year jail term for breaking a Michigan identity fraud law.

A legal gray area is expected to be probed by the case, thanks to the nature of the snooping. Walker accessed his wife's emails on a laptop he claims the family shared, using a password she stored in a book next to the computer. It wasn't exactly high-level hacking.

http://gizmodo.com/5718800/man-faces-five-years-in-jailfor-reading-wifes-emails


This comment sums it up for me: "I'm sure the courts would have preferred it if he had stormed into a room they were screwing in and shot them both. Shame on you, sir, for acting calmly and rationally."

 

[Scouzer]

What the hell did he expect? She's had 3 husbands. Of course she's a cheating whore.

 

[Kommander_Kink]

LMAO at America. Orwell was right.

 

[SunnyD]

"You are NOT the father!" /Maury

 

[rasczak]

Tiki is that you?

 

[moshquerade]

Tiki is that you?

Tiki is the cheater though, not the cheated on

 

[trmiv]

"You are NOT the father!" /Maury

 

[Phokus]

LMAO, this owns so hard.

 

[dabuddha]

10 bucks that the prosecutor is the guy the whore is cheating with!