Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Terry Childs Found Guilty

Posted by kdawson on from the miss-carriage dept.

A jury in San Francisco found Terry Childs guilty of one felony count of computer tampering. The trial lasted four months. Childs now faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

7 of 982 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Poor jerk. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Jerk" is right. The guy got what was coming to him. To all the sysadmins with a similar "god complex" out there, let this be a lesson to you. You do not own the systems. You are an employee. You answer to someone, and if they demand something you either do it or quit. End of story.

  2. Re:Soooo by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 0, Troll

    My experience has been, when the head of your agency or supervisor(s) ask for a password, you give it to them.

    If they call you and ask for it, you give it to them.

    Terry Childs is a felon, the city of San Francisco shouldn't have put him in that position in the first place.

  3. Re:do the right thing by BitHive · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, that's the lesson here. I swear, Slashdot is whinier than a bunch of teenage girls. Remind me to never read this site again.

  4. Re:Been there. The Feds hate geeks. by blair1q · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your lawyer was a fucking retard. Nobody does life for damaging a shitter.

  5. Re:Been there. The Feds hate geeks. by blair1q · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you keep fucking retards as lawyers, anyone can have you. There are a zillion lawyers out there. Shop around next time.

  6. Re:It should read 'stoopid people hath spoken' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Right. I saw it happening a lot here after Hans Reiser killed his wife. It was pretty damn obvious he did it, but he sure had a lot of otherwise intelligent slashdotters refusing to face facts.

    If it was so obvious to you, why didn't you tell the police the facts? As it is, they were unable to show even a tiny amount of evidence that she was even dead. According to his own lawyer, he was convicted because he didn't listen to his lawyer when told to shut up, not because of any evidence.

    The proof was only presented (by Reiser himself) after he was convicted.

  7. Re:He was an idiot by Diesel+Dave · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you could recognize the injustice of the situation, and in your heart knew it was wrong to convict, but you were perfectly willing to be a part of it because the whimsical authority of the CA government is simply paramount to any sort of humanity.

    Excellent job Fuck-Wad!

    Next time instead of "following the law", try and do what is right.