Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin

snydeq writes "San Francisco County Judge Charles Haines has denied Terry Childs' motion to reduce his $5 million bail, alluding to 'public security concerns,' according to Richard Shikman, who is representing Childs in court. The ruling comes in the wake of a recent decision to drop three of the four changes that have been levied against Childs, who has spent the past 14 months in jail. The fourth charge — that Childs violated a California statute regarding illegal denial of service for the San Francisco FiberWAN — has been called into question by those closely monitoring the case. As a point of comparison, the San Francisco Felony Bail Schedule lists a $1 million bail for the most serious crimes, such as sexual assault of a child, aggravated arson, or kidnapping for ransom. Prosecutors have argued that the bail is appropriate because, if released, Childs could cause damage to San Francisco's network."

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Re:too easy

[joaommp]

no, it was a network that had him as the "caretaker". Despite the methods, from what has been said, what he was doing was trying to protect the network. As a "caretaker", it's his job to do what he must to protect the network. Of course, there are proper methods and limits, but I don't see why what he did would justify 14 months in jail and $5M bail. They've had the passwords for over a year, for God sake. If he wanted the network to get stuffed, he could have very well also let the passwords somewhere else or with someone else to do the job for him in case anything happened to him, so they could hold the network hostage. Did that happened? Childs seems to be a guy to smart to NOT do something like this if his intentions were less than honorable (regardless of the methods).