If she is in custody, the Federal Marshal Service transports her, and she’s put up in whatever detention facilities they use in LA. http://www.usmarshals.gov/montage/index.html
If she’s not, she’s got to get to trial herself. She’d have to provide for food and lodging, just as anyone else does when they are free on bail.
Hint: There are two links to the “indictment” in this thread. The indictment spells out what the government thinks it can prove and cites the applicable laws that make that conduct illegal.
What crime they conspired to commit. She is being prosecuted for breaking 18 USC § 1030. The conspiracy charge is because the prosecution believes she did so in conjunction with another individual.
Getting tried for some lesser crime because the law doesn’t cover or you can’t be found guilty of the greater offense (not necessarily criminal) is a tried and true means of ‘justice’ - most famous in “lets throw the book at Capone for tax evasion and have him do hard time for what is a petty paper crime.”
The jury could find that she and her employee agreed to create the site planning to harm Megan with it, but that the harm to Megan wasn’t actually their fault.
Analogy: I agree with my co-worker to murder my boss so I will get his job. We buy a high-powered rifle to shoot him. At this point, we’re guilty of conspiracy. We shoot into his window, but miss him. Unbeknownst to us, he’s been suicidal for some time. He’s in the middle of recording a farewell video for his family, and after he finishes he shoots himself.
I think what this woman did is absolutely horrible and if I believed in hell I’m sure she would rot there. She is a disgusting excuse for a human being.
that said, I’m very uncomfortable with the idea of what she did being a crime.
Violating the terms of service on your agreement, causing tens of thousands of dollars in forensics losses to the company whose terms of service you violated? - that’s the crime she seems to be being prosecuted for. I’m fine with fraud being a crime - and when she misrepresented herself on her terms of service, she may have committed fraud. I think its lucky that in committing an act which proved her to be a disgusting excuse for a human being, but which may have been legal, she broke another law.
Lori Drew is one heartless, immature, vindictive bitch. The pain she’s inflicted on both families is immeasurable. The sad truth of the matter is that I believe she’s a real live sociopath. So whatever justice we can mete out will fall short of what we want – which is for her to feel true remorse.
Agreed. Lori Drew is a pimple on the ass of the human race, but the fact that Megan’s parents couldn’t even be bothered to unplug the computer makes me :dubious:
While I’m not saying it’s their fault, they are not blameless in this situation.
An update – Ms. Drew’s trial is set to begin this week.
The judge has ruled that the jury can be told of Megan’s suicide. This is, to my eyes, a questionable decision, since she’s being tried for the violation of the terms of service, and the fact that a suicide resulted is not legally relevant… unless her defense does something to make it relevant, like argue “no harm done/minor violation.”
What do you think the liklihood is that the judge believes that letting the testimony in so voters next time won’t think of him of that sunnofagun who let the bitch off on a ‘technicality’ ?
See, while I believe that no judge really likes being overturned on appeal, they also like sitting on the bench. And I think it’d be much more likely that voters would be pissed off at the testimony not getting in (regardless of appeal decisions), and also that the talking heads like Nancy Grace would take time out in their busy days to rant and rail at a judge for disallowing it (I agree w/you on principle, though)>
I think the judge is wrong. I also think the prosecutor should never have charged this as a crime. As reprehensible as Lori Drew is, I don’t think she should be criminally convicted.
If because you know that someone you hate has high blood pressure and cardiac arrythmia, you send them a package with a device to make a loud flash and bang on opening, and they have a heart attack and die, are you a criminal?
What if you stood across the room, pointed a gun loaded with blanks at their head and pulled the trigger?
How about you wedge their apartment door closed, set a fire in a trash can outside their door, and pull the fire alarm? If they fall and die while climbing down from a fifth floor ledge, are you liable?