Julie Amero to get new trial
p2pnet.net news:- Julie Amero, the American school teacher facing jail for supposedly allowing her students watch online porn during class, is to get a new trial.
She’d already been convicted of four felony counts of “risk of injury to a minor,” but “The jury may have relied, at least in part, on that faulty information,” Associated Press has judge Hillary B. Strackbein, who granted the request for a new trial, saying.
Amero hotly denied the allegations and Sunbelt Software president Alex Eckelberry helped organize a computer team to show she wasn’t guilty as charged.
“Some technology experts believe unseen spyware and adware programs might have generated the pop-up ads for pornographic Web sites,” says the story.
“Amero and her supporters say the old computer, which she was ordered to leave on, lacked firewall or antispyware protections to prevent inappropriate pop-ups.”
The date for her new trial hasn’t yet been decided.
Also See:
teacher facing jail – Online porn teacher reprieved, June 7, 2007
Associated Press – Teacher Gets New Trial on Classroom Porn, June 7, 2007
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