Possible Jail Time for Email Snooping Husband
A Michigan man who says he found out about his wife’s cheating ways by reading her email on their computer faces trial next month on felony computer misuse charges, according to Detroit Free Press.
Leon Walker, 33, who used his wife’s password to get into her Gmail account, could face up to five years in jail. He said he had read her emails, but did not believe he had broken the law, WDIV – Detroit reported.
Rummaging through her messages, Walker said he discovered email exchanges between his wife and her second husband that indicated an affair. Walker said his wife’s second husband had been arrested on accusations that he abused her. Worried for his daughter’s safety, Walker said he turned the emails over to his wife’s first husband, with whom she also has a child, according to WDIV.
After the emails were turned over, Walker’s wife Clara called the police.
Frederick Lane, a Vermont attorney and expert on electronic privacy, told Detroit Free Press the case is going to be interesting “because there are no clear legal answers here.” The fact that the couple was living together, and that Walker had routine access to the computer, may help him, Lane said.
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Well, well, in good old masonic Scotland the rules are very different. here. I was plagued with a so-called group of solicitors cum lawyers who gained and subsequently obtained access to my gmail account. They then used, abused and misused this6 months of emails to take me to a civil court and ordered a non-harassment order to be served upon both myself and my husband against a little monster. He, my husband has never used a computer in his life…and as Dickens always maintained “the law is an ass”…indeed
By the way they got their so-called order granted for 5 years. Why is this allowed in the 21c? How archaic are these so-called rulings; surely this is illegal and an unlawful act performed by they. By the way I never owned to a lawyer, so the opposing side wiped their guilt strewn and filthy feet all o’er me and got away with this illegality…alongside their wee ‘client’ …Jesus H Christ they even reproduced and fabricated death threats and used my husband’s name. Good old Scottish justice never fails to amaze. Al Megrahi the Lockerbie bomber…..now me…………. what next!!!!!!!
I am an attorney in Lansing, MI, and I successfully defended a client who was charged under the same felony hacking statute in Lansing, MI. The prosecutor is clearly over-reaching by charging the husband under this computer hacking statute. My client was charged under the statute for simply changing his ex-girlfriend’s password in her Yahoo and Facebook accounts. The charges were ultimately dismissed. See kallmanlegal.com/computer-crime-on-the-rise.html.