July 2009
3 posts
Another response:
‘Ben, I was reading through your archives recently when I came across your original post. You’re making some pretty compelling arguments. One request for clarification—is your position that Lori Drew should go completely without punishment for her actions or merely that she shouldn’t be prosecuted on these specific charges?
Also, with this statement “For the rest of her life, Drew will live...
In response to my previous post:
‘One thing to keep in mind here is that crimes have two elements, usually: an act and a mental state. The prosecutors don’t seem to have been arguing that she should be criminally liable just for violating the TOS per se (strict liability) but rather for violating the TOS with the intent to do whatever she did. Depending on how steep the intent requirement for the crimes was (e.g., “intent...
Lori Drew and the Case of the "Cyber Bully"
For the sake of transparency, I was quite proud of the title for this post until I looked it up and found someone beat me to the punch. I think I liked the world better when nobody knew everything had been done before.
I’ve written on this subject previously, but with recent developments, I have decided to return to it. Lori Drew was convicted of at least one misdemeanor charge (I’m...