Prosecution by Pop-Up Ads

Interesting story about a substitute teacher whose computer at school got infected with spyware causing pornographic pop-up ads to appear. The State of Connecticut unbelievably charged her with 4 felony counts of showing school children pornography (worth up to 40 years behind bars) and didn't so much as even conduct an expert forensic examination of the hard drive. Volunteer computer experts from around the country stepped in to examine the hard drive and found that indeed there was spyware and that the school system didn't maintain the computer properly. This still wasn't enough for the State's Attorney on the case, Michael Regan, or the Norwich, CT police dept. or the school IT people to admit they were in error and after 4 years, the accused agreed to a plea bargain because her health is declining fighting the case - $100 fine, pleading guilty to disorderly conduct and losing her CT teacher's certificate.

http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2008/11/
connecticut-drops-felony-charg.html

and

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/
breaking-julie-amero-horror-is-over.html