Lori Drew has prevailed after all. A federal judge in California this afternoon threw out the conviction for her role in a St. Louis area teenager's suicide. Drew had faced a maximum sentence of three years in prison. Instead, U.S. District Judge George Wu threw out her misdemeanor computer fraud conviction. Prosecutors charged Drew using a novel application of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a law previously used largely to prosecute computer hackers.
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