At 6:11 PM -0500 2/28/01, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:38:50PM +0000, Steve Thompson wrote:
Quoting Eric Cordian (emc@artifact.psychedelic.net):
NAVARRE, Fla. (AP) -- A high school student has been charged with violating Florida's wiretapping law after tape recording a chemistry class lecture.
Is it me, or is there something sadly desperate in the recent actions of various government prosecutors in their efforts to censure anyone remotely weak enough to be safely attacked?
Uh... Clue alert! It was the clueless teacher who brought the charges and the prosecutor dropped them stating that the teacher could have no expectation of privacy in a classroom of 30 students. That neither sounds like the government nor the prosecutors. Just one dweeb of an inDUHvidual teacher that was a few clues short of a load.
Actually, the article says:
But Shelaine Goss, the chemistry teacher, filed a complaint and the state filed charges against the teen Feb. 5.
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