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Vigilante Hacker's Evidence Puts Judge Behind Bars

Sharon Gaudin writes on InformationWeek:

A former California judge was sentenced this week for possession of child pornography, five years after a vigilante hacker infiltrated his computer with a Trojan horse computer program designed to weed out pedophiles.

Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. Kline, 65, of Irvine, Calif., was sentenced Feb. 20, to 27 months in federal prison for possessing thousands of images of under-age boys engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He pleaded guilty in December 2005 to four counts of possession of child pornography, admitting that the images of child pornography were on his home computer, two floppy disks and one portable disk drive, according to a written release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Central District of California.

The sentencing wrapped up nearly six year of legal wrangling over the admissibility of evidence obtained from Kline's computer.

posted by Fergie @ 2/23/2007 10:51:00 AM