A divided high court overturned a felony computer trespass conviction of a Georgia man who forwarded all his boss’ emails to his own inbox—in a case in which prosecutors cited the wrong statute at trial.

Rather than charging Jereno Sadatrice Kinslow—an IT professional with the city of Norcross— with interfering with the operation of a computer program, the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office instead accused him of interfering with the use of data.

Leigh Ann Webster of Strickland Webster in Atlanta. Courtesy photo Leigh Ann Webster of Strickland Webster in Atlanta. (Courtesy photo)

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