Posted on 09/25/2010 5:22:35 AM PDT by libstripper
A federal judge has shot down a former University of Tennessee student's bid to have tossed out convictions in the illegal access of Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account during the 2008 presidential election.
Although U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips' ruling, issued Thursday, paves the way for David C. Kernell to be sentenced next month, his will not be the final word on whether the convictions will stand. Defense attorney Wade Davies is appealing the then-20-year-old UT student's case to the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
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I hope the sentence is he has to spend a winter on the North Slope.
” Just ask Martha Stewart and Scooter Libby”
Yeah, but they weren’t the son of a fat cat democrat.
Martha Stewart is a fat cat Democrat.
Reap what you sow, punk.
It has been over 2 years since this happened. Justice has not been swift. He may still get probation. The defense has delayed the case as long as possible so the anger associated with his actions subsides.
When he did this, I followed the evidence that was on the web carefully. I read his admin notes in the cached version of his website. Those notes stated his contempt for Palin because she went to church and had all those children. And he called her the C-word just like the netroots did on their t-shirts.
He is a hacker want-to-be son of a Dem POL. He was a netroot want-to-be who thought he could find dirt on Palin in her personal e-mail account. When he found nothing he stated he was diss-appointed and posted the info on a hacker forum with the password so others could add to what he had done. A forum reader changed the password and notified Palin's campaign that it had been compromised. I have read that the kid has emotional problems and it is obvious that he does not have good judgement.
“...the kid has emotional problems and it is obvious that he does not have good judgement.”
OH! A typical lib!
Throw his commie punk ass behind bars for a very long time...
Yes, he is a typical Lib.
And no, I was not defending him in any fashion. I have utter contempt for him, his arrogance and his actions.
I got sucked into this when it happened because of some observations I posted on a blog in TN. That event caused me to make my first post on FR. For many years I was simply a lurker here.
He’s probably a bit nervous after reading all the comments advising him “not to pick up the soap” while he’s serving his sentence...
His chances would be better if it were the 9th circus U.S. Court of Appeals.
Yep, 9th Circus is insane.
An awful lot of money is being spent to avoid what amounts to a paltry sentence that is likely going to be adjudicated to probation anyway given a previously clean record. If he were smart, he’d keep his name out of the paper, accept the probation and quietly serve it without making headlines.
Did they explore the possibility that he was put up to it ?
When this first went down, Kernell appeared to have made a deal with the Feds to cooperate fully. Which he later failed to do.
The worst count he was convicted on was trying to hide the evidence of what he had done from the Feds by wiping his PC of the evidence.
He will probably do time. I doubt it will be in a general prison population. His father is a Dem POL.
Actions have consequences. On the web he basically admitted to trying to sabatoge Palin’s chances (with McCain) in the election. He said he did it to “get the goods on her”. He said some horrible things about her that are not based in any fact. It is obvious that he was brainwashed by the lefties involved in netroots and was trying to make a name for himself by slaying the enemy (Palin).
Sad that by his own actions someone this young is in this mess. But he did what he was charged with.
“...the kid has emotional problems and it is obvious that he does not have good judgement.”
So does Obama, but he was allow to become President.
I am sure they did, but it appears he was trying to make a name for himself. I think he felt if he "got the goods" on Palin that the netroots and Obamanistas would applaud him. He felt this would give him a position of importance within that group. Sad, isn't it. Representing the "dark side" has consequences.
I thought exactly what you suggested early in this event. I did a technorati search of his name and the 3rd hit I got was a link to a video of David Plouffe about the campaign strategy. Later I was convinced that the link was found because of the common name "David" in the search. I took some heat when I posted the search address I used. Within an hour the search at technorati no longer gave that result. Someone noticed. Later I had e-mails "held for testing" (frozen & not delivered) by a Yahoo/ATT mail server on e-mails including a screen capture of the search results. (note- This was before the elections)
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