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Terry Childs Denied Motion For Retrial

Posted by Soulskill on from the out-of-options dept.

snydeq writes "The former San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords for one of the city's networks has been denied a new trial and is expected to be sentenced Aug. 6. Terry Childs had been due for sentencing Friday but the court instead heard two defense motions, one requesting a new trial and the other for arrested judgment — essentially to have his original conviction overturned. The motions were both denied but the court then ran out of time before the sentencing phase could be conducted."

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  1. Miscarriage of Justice by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 0, Troll

    Guy does his job even AFTER he's fired and he goes to prison for it? Ugh.

    Sure he had a god-complex, but then again he designed the system from the ground up and was tasked with making it secure. I'd say he went above and beyond the call of duty. This is a notice to network admins that your bosses don't want security or good workers. They want "Yes!" men.

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    "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
    1. Re:Miscarriage of Justice by dbIII · · Score: 1, Troll

      Wow, how did the above poster manage to get so many things wrong?

      There were many articles on this case, I suggest reading one of them and ignore the extra "spin" (eg. "He was introduced to the new person that had that job" WTF did that come from?) put on by the above poster for some unknown reason. Painandgreed - why are you going on about things being "booby trapped" when the reality was just settings in memory, why lie about such things? Is there some sysadmin you hate and you want to project an idealised monster based on Terry Childs on them?
      This was a case full of many WTF from start to finish - for example the Mayor didn't turn up becuase he was the only one that could solve the problem, he turned up because it made him look like some kind of diplomatic hero. Nobody can find the quote "I'll only give it to the Mayor" becuase I'll bet he never said it, but we all fell for such bullshit becuase we grew up watching Batman on TV.
      I'm hoping some decent journalist shovels through all this bullshit and writes a decent book on the case, it's likely to be interesting.

    2. Re:Miscarriage of Justice by dbIII · · Score: 0, Troll

      Some of that stuff definitely came from somewhere else. I'd say your own imagination.
      So who is that person that was given Terry Child's job before he left, when did he meet him and what was the name of that imaginary person's imaginary dog?
      Stirring up trouble may be fun but it's quite childish.