Comments on: Justice for Julie Amero

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Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:04:10 +0000

[...] and began displaying pornographic images. It looks like she’ll finally be getting a new trial. *** It seems as though Americans have always been obsessed w [...]

By: Magis

Magis — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:23:47 +0000

Malicious prosecution?

By: Hugo

Hugo — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:37:52 +0000

Agreed, this is why God, in Her infinite wisdom created torts.

By: Cara

Cara — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:26:38 +0000

I remember this story. Seriously fucked up. Especially considering all the rapists that go free. Hey, we can’t get the De Anza rape case prosecuted, but a teacher accidentally showing her students a couple of seconds of porn? LOCK HER UP!

By: Brad Jackson

Brad Jackson — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:00:26 +0000

She’d be well advised sue the school, the county, and anyone else involved for an amount equal to her expected lifetime earnings as a teacher. Vindicated or not the odds are very good that she’ll never be hired by any school.

Not that they’ll ever just come out and tell her “we won’t hire you because you were falsely accused of downloading porn a while back.”

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:09:28 +0000

Amero’s case became a hot issue for bloggers throughout the country, many of whom sharply criticized the guilty verdict. Strackbein criticized the bloggers today, saying they tried to “improperly influence” the court.

And may bloggers do so many times again when such insane verdicts come around.

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:36:04 +0000

What on earth could the idiot incompetents who decided to prosecute this poor woman have been thinking?

“We don’t have the guts to look the parents in the eye and say, ‘Wake the fuck up, it’s the twenty-first century, we can’t put a magic force-field around your children to protect them from this stuff; it’s your job to teach them that this crap isn’t cool, if that’s your belief.’ Need a scapegoat, need a scapegoat… any goth kids in the classroom that this can be semi-plausibly pinned on? Any misfits at all? Oh well… guess we’ll have to go with the teacher.”

By: Betsy

Betsy — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:16:09 +0000

When this first hit the news, it made me so angry and despairing. I’m incredibly relieved that our justice system hasn’t *totally* failed her (just 99%). What on earth could the idiot incompetents who decided to prosecute this poor woman have been thinking?

By: Read-Ems at Shakesville

Read-Ems at Shakesville — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:50:38 +0000

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By: Sniper

Sniper — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:20:12 +0000

Christ, our school district has all kinds of computer security which any kid can evade by simply typing the search terms in Spanish – or any language other than English.

I use the computers for reading, writing and researching. These are the skills I teach the kids. On the other hand, I have no idea how to download music or find free games or even change the damned wallpaper on the school computers, but the kids sure do. This case scared the hell out of me for obvious reasons. It’s the school equivalent of prosecuting parents becauase their teenaged kid found the porn stash. Insane.