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The Associated Press: Jury convicts mom of lesser charges in online hoax
2 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) A jury on Wednesday was unable to reach a verdict on the main conspiracy charge and instead convicted a Missouri woman of three minor offenses for her role in an Internet hoax that apparently drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide. The Los Angeles federal court jury ...
Cyberbully Jury Nears Verdict on Three Charges, Struggles With Fourth
blog.wired.com — The jury weighing a landmark federal cyberbullying case against 49-year-old Lori Drew resumes deliberations after asking the... judge a question which suggests they have reached a decision on three of the charges and might be facing a deadlock on the ... (more) Cyberbully Jury Nears Verdict on Three Charges, ...
MySpace Suicide verdict: Lori Drew guilty of lesser charges
MySpace Suicide verdict: Lori Drew guilty of lesser charges
inquisitr.com — A Federal Jury in Los Angeles hearing the MySpace suicide case has found Lori Drew guilty of... three minor offenses. The MySpace Suicide made headlines last year after it was disclosed that a Missouri teenager Megan Meier hanged herself after being tricked into a fake relationship with a ... (more) MySpace Suicide verdict: Lori Drew guilty of lesser charges
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Report: Lesser charges for 'MySpace suicide' mom
The Social — Lori Drew, the Missouri woman who created a fake MySpace profile that she used to harass a teenage girl to the point of suicide, was convincted of three offenses far minor than the ones she could have been, the Associated Press wrote Wednesday. Drew was indicted in May by a federal court ...

MySpace Suicide verdict: Lori Drew guilty of lesser charges
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... The result wasn’t all good news: the jury could not reach a verdict on a conspiracy count, and U.S. District Court Judge George Wu declared a mistrial on the charge reports AP. It’s not clear at this stage whether a new trial will be held to rehear those charge. If later found guilty of conspiracy, Drew could face 20 years in jail. ...

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