imho, it’s GUILTY on the three other counts, but even I can’t find where he tried to do identity theft.
If somebody logs on and says they’re me, isn’t that identity theft? It should be.
In my opinion, when one unlawfully accesses a personal email account where there are passwords etc to other personal accounts (bank accounts etc), that could be at least construed as the intent to commit identity theft. If this guy went so far as to access one account, which he did, why not deduce that his intent was to also access other accounts with the information he found there? His goal was to cause damage, and there is no reason to think that he was going to stop with just one effort.
I don’t know if there were any of those details in Palin’s account, but the talk of pictures etc leads me to believe there may have been. And I also don’t know if the accused did see any passwords or personal information to other accounts. So just speculating along with the rest of the interested folks here.
imho, it’s GUILTY on the three other counts, but even I can’t find where he tried to do identity theft.
Yeah, that's probably it. And the "one holdout" is a conservative who is not giving up, doncha know ... LOL ...
It depends on the specific wording of the law. This little punk not only broke into her account, but he then published the information on how to access the account on the internet. From what I understand of the federal identity theft law, it's likely he broke it, but there is a condition in there about intent to commit a crime using the information. While I personally believe publishing account access information in public qualifies, I'm not entirely sure all 12 people on a jury would agree.
Didn't he change the Yahoo password by prompting one of the security questions, he had the answer to where Sarah and Todd were married because of what he'd read in the press? Thus he was presenting himself as her and was able to set another password that allowed him into the account.