From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 04:55:02 +0800
To: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Subject: Re: Columbian squib on Bell sentencing
Message-ID: <199712132049.PAA22202@mx02.together.net>
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On 12/13/97 9:38 AM, frissell@panix.com (frissell@panix.com)  passed
this wisdom:

>>>From The Columbian's web site at
>><http://www.columbian.com/newsroom/topstories.html>:
>>
>>     'Assassination Politics' 
>>     author gets 11 months
>>
>>       TACOMA, Wash. - James Dalton Bell, the Vancouver man who
>> wrote an Internet essay entitled "Assassination Politics," was
>>sentenced this morning to 11 months in prison and two to three years
>>of tightly supervised probation.
>
>Eleven *whole* months (8 months served already).  They've got to be 
>kidding.  
>
>This is misdemeanor territory.  I know he was chicken enough to plead
>but Milken pleaded and got 10 years!  We're quaking in our boots out
>here.

 ... hmmmm ... any hint of resrictions? i.e like not being able to use
a computer or be on the Internet??? Considering how much they harped
about the A.P. scheme I would have thought that would have been a
centerpiece of any punishment they meted out to Jim.

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