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Net Abductor's Sentencing Delayed
News A British judge has adjourned sentencing on Monday for a Net paedophile who kidnapped a 12-year-old girl that he met in an Internet chatroom. Judge Patrick Hooton agreed to adjourn sentencing until a later date in May, following a recommendation...
[April 10, 2001, 8:39]
Six Face Sentencing For Internet Fraud, ID Theft
News Six men will be sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court on Friday, after pleading guilty to using the Internet to defraud UK banks to the tune of £350,000. The six men, aged between 21 and 39, obtained false identities over the Internet and used them...
[November 21, 2003, 10:50]
Law Makes Scotland Attractive To Net Paedophiles, Says Expert
News A leading criminal psychologist has warned that Internet paedophiles may move to Scotland to take advantage of weaker sentencing guidelines on the downloading of child pornography. The controversial ruling creates massive inconsistencies between...
[October 24, 2001, 10:08]
Oxford Scholar Used Net To Lure Schoolboy
News An Oxford University scholar is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy that he met in a gay Internet chatroom. Sentencing has been adjourned for pre-sentence and psychiatric reports, but judge David...
[February 21, 2001, 16:34]
Harsh Sentences Loom For Spammers
News The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) said on Tuesday that it had sent Congress sentencing guidelines for the Can-Spam Act, short for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing.
[April 15, 2004, 10:50]
Email Scammer Sent Down In $242m Fraud Case
Talkback There is a cross cultural inconsistency where living law must find answer to the new challenges and the courts are required to mould the sentencing system to meet the challenges. In working the sentencing system, law should espouse the corrective...
[July 18, 2005, 19:31]
Lawyers: Hackers Sentenced Too Harshly
News The paper -- signed by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit group that focusses on perceived injustices in penalties -- criticised today's...
[February 21, 2003, 10:24]
Punishment Fails To Fit The Cybercrime
Talkback Perhaps the comparison with the (ridiculous) marijuana sentencing says more about the hugely successful 'war on drugs' than the appropriate sentencing for unrelated crimes. oh god.please tell us how locking up a teenager for another couple of years...
[August 19, 2004, 14:37]
McKinnon Should Be Scared; So Should America
Talkback They hear the evidence and consider the fact that the machines were badly administrated and this is taken into consideration when sentencing. Gary being tried in a foreign country by a jury that hears he has attacked their country' this is bound to...
[May 10, 2006, 16:37]
Virus Writing: End Of An Era?
News Smith, 31, pleaded guilty in both state and federal courts on Thursday, agreeing that the virus he wrote and released -- named "Melissa" after a Florida stripper -- caused $80m (£50m) in damages (the minimum monetary amount needed in order to...
[December 10, 1999, 9:27]
Software Engineer Sentenced To Prison
News McNulty said in a statement announcing the sentencing. So far, several alleged DrinkOrDie ringleaders and members have pleaded guilty in the case and are awaiting sentencing. A former security software engineer convicted of providing technology to...
[May 3, 2002, 10:54]
Home Office Commits Gaffe Over Entrapment
News Ironically the judge in the case -- QC Peter Fingret -- slammed PACE as inadequate and demanded a change in the law after sentencing Kenneth Lockley at the Old Bailey. Nigel Williams, director of Childnet International argues that the Lockley...
[February 6, 2001, 14:05]
First Spammers Charged Under New US Law
News In April, the US Sentencing Commission sent Congress sentencing guidelines for the Can-Spam Act, adding penalties for people convicted of sending spam via someone else's computer without permission or obscuring the message's origin.
[April 30, 2004, 8:50]
Naughton Jury: Cops 'screwed Up'
News After the conviction, defence attorneys scrambled to convince the judge that Naughton should remain free until his sentencing on March 6. Naughton looked shocked as the judge ordered him to be held in a nearby jail without bail until sentencing.
[December 17, 1999, 8:42]
Hackers Face Life Sentence
News Require the US Sentencing Commission to revise sentencing guidelines for computer crimes. By a 385-3 vote, the House approved a computer crime bill that also expands police ability to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without first...
[July 16, 2002, 12:48]
Judge Calls For Internet Controls On Net Paedophilia
News A British judge has called for greater checks on unlawful Internet content after sentencing an Oxford University scholar to five years for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy that he met in a gay Internet chatroom.
[April 6, 2001, 15:07]
Precedent-setting Internet Verdict Delayed
News Waddon's defence asked for an adjournment to sentencing while the financial impact of the porn business he ran was assessed. Waddon's bail has been extended. The case has been heralded as an "incredible precedent" by police in the fight against Net...
[July 30, 1999, 15:21]
PricewaterhouseCoopers Case Study: A Worldwide Software Company
White Papers PWC's process included developing a function-specific methodology based on the COSO enterprise-wide risk framework and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for effective compliance programmes. The client is a global software company.
[March 11, 2005, 23:00]
Wonderland Paedophiles Are Sentenced
News Robin Bynoe, partner with London law firm Charles Russell, says the sentencing looks suspiciously like plea bargaining came into play -- this is a scenario he believes is inappropriate in such a case.
[February 13, 2001, 14:28]
Chatroom Danger: Wonderland Paedophiles Given The Thumbs Up
News Saving time and money seems to be the real motive when sentencing paedophiles, but is this what society expects from the judicial system? A leading solicitor argues not. WARNING: this article contains strong and sexually explicit language
[March 15, 2001, 12:48]
