Another Wiretap Criminal Exposed

[Marshall Clow]

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 at artifact.psychedelic.net):
> > > http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/national/ap448.htm
>
>> > 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.

The "state filed charges" sounds like more than just a teacher.
Probably had to get the DA's office involved.
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-- Marshall

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