baltimoresun.com - Judge rejects guilty plea in CAN-SPAM case: "Judge rejects guilty plea in CAN-SPAM case
Theft of e-mail addresses may not be crime, he says
From Wire Reports
Originally published December 22, 2004
NEW YORK - A federal judge refused yesterday to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online software engineer accused of stealing 92 million e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers.
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, said he was not convinced that Jason Smathers, 24, had committed a crime under new federal CAN-SPAM legislation that took effect this year. "
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