From: Cedric Tefft <CedricT@datastorm.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 14:09:13 PST
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: RE: Zimmermann case is dropped.
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> From: owner-cypherpunks
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> Cc: prz
> Subject: Zimmermann case is dropped.
> Date: Monday, January 08, 1996 3:35AM
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> Subject: Zimmermann case is dropped.
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks)
> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 03:35:46 -0700 (MST)
> Cc: prz@acm.org (Philip Zimmermann)
> From: Philip Zimmermann <prz@acm.org>
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> My lead defense lawyer, Phil Dubois, received a fax this morning from
> the Assistant US Attorney in Northern District of California, William
> Keane.  The letter informed us that I "will not be prosecuted in 
connection
> with the posting to USENET in June 1991 of the encryption program
> Pretty Good Privacy.  The investigation is closed."
>
> This brings to a close a criminal investigation that has spanned the
> last three years.  I'd like to thank all the people who helped us in
> this case, especially all the donors to my legal defense fund. 
 Apparently,
> the money was well-spent.  And I'd like to thank my very capable defense
> team:  Phil Dubois, Ken Bass, Eben Moglen, Curt Karnow, Tom Nolan, and Bob
> Corn-Revere.  Most of the time they spent on the case was pro-bono.  I'd
> also like to thank Joe Burton, counsel for the co-defendant.
>
> There are many others I can thank, but I don't have the presence of mind
> to list them all here at this moment.  The medium of email cannot express
> how I feel about this turn of events.
>
>
>   -Philip Zimmermann
>    11 Jan 96
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Chalk one up for the good guys.  Thanks for hanging in there Phil.

 - Cedric