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David M. LaMacchia, a 21-year-old senior at the Cambridge University, was charged last April with conspiracy to commit wire fraud for allegedly running a computer bulletin board that allowed people to make free copies of more than $1 million worth of copyrighted computer software...
David M. LaMacchia, a 21-year-old MIT senior majoring in electrical engineering and computer science, was charged last April with conspiracy to commit wire fraud for allegedly running a computer bulletin board that allowed people to make free copies of more than $1 million worth of copyrighted computer software...
Still, it is hard to imagine what good reason the government might have to frame a young woman with no national reputation as an activist, and whether or not she was entrapped into it, no public figure has yet suggested that she did not undertake to commit a horrible crime. In jail or free, her wounds, reopened, will be slow to heal...
...centuries-old rule of Anglo-American common law holds that jurors should not be told of a defendant's past behavior that is considered too inflammatory for a jury to handle. In all states past crimes are inadmissable as evidence to show that the defendant was predisposed to commit the crime. Thus the judge in William Kennedy Smith's rape trial refused to allow testimony from three young women who each claimed that Smith had assaulted them under similar circumstances. "We fear that the jury will not be as careful in sifting the evidence if they know that the accused...
...Simpson, the California Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man accused of killing his wife, ruling that prosecutors could offer evidence that he had assaulted her repeatedly in the past. In the Simpson case, Deputy District Attorney Scott Gordon told the court, "This murder took 17 years to commit...