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.
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