[paulcissa]

Good! I’m sure she didn’t mean for the girl to kill herself but what kind of adult does that to a junior high aged student? What a despicable thing to do.

I think that's probably why it took so long to see any movement on this.....Local prosecutors didn't know how to apply law to a case like this. It really needed to go to the feds for some kind of case law to be established. I'm not advocating the fed, but I believe this is going to be a part of standard law for the future of cyber-based crimes such as this.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Local prosecutors didn't know how to apply law to a case like this. It really needed to go to the feds for some kind of case law to be established."

My thoughts as well...it will be interesting to see what ultimately comes of this.

[ishabibble]

Agreed.

[GovernmentShrinker]

It may be that federal law offered some avenues for prosecution that state law did not. This occurred over the internet, using out of state MySpace servers, and that is likely how it was brought under federal jurisdiction, even though all parties involved lived in the same state. And federal conspiracy laws are a good deal more extensive than most state conspiracy laws.