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US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice
The Nation reports that 24-year-old Khairullozhon Matanov, an associate of the since-convicted Tsarnaev brothers, faces charges not of conspiring with the Tsarnaevs, but of obstructing justice, and one aspect of the actions he took should probably concern anyone who has crossed paths online or in real life with subject of law enforcement scrutiny, and subsequently cleared their browser history. From the article:
The feds finally arrested and indicted him in May 2014. ... There were three counts for making false statements based on the aforementioned lies and—remarkably—one count for destroying "any record, document or tangible object" with intent to obstruct a federal investigation. This last charge was for deleting videos on his computer that may have demonstrated his own terrorist sympathies and for clearing his browser history.
What about using incognito mode?
Your above-average slashdotter can, from the writeup, deduce everything necessary to form even substantive opinions, and post away.
If you need links, your google skillz are lacking. Word up.
Your average slashdotter is on thier own.
Your below-average slashdotter is posting as an AC anyways, and is superfluous.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
A fan of OJ's? Or just a libertarian nut? OJ was not tried for the same thing twice. He was tried for murder (a criminal charge) and for culpability in the murder (a civil charge). Although these are related, they are not the same thing. It would have been double jeopardy if OJ had been acquitted (or convicted, makes no difference) of the criminal charge and then prosecuted *again* for the same instance of crime.
If you wanted actual "double jeopardy" you would have to look to the military where you *can* be charged twice for the same crime (once in military court, once in civil court). But that "works" because the military judicial system is separate.
But I can't tell how the so-called double jeopardy of OJ Simpson even relates to the rest of your rant. Your claim that "people with money never go to jail" must have some weird definition of "people with money". I get that you don't mean normal people (despite the fact that we have money), but how do you explain Martha Stewart? That was a high profile case of a "person with money" going to jail.