Supreme Court Won’t Acquit Alleged Hacker in Fishing Data Theft
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against an Alabama man whose trade secrets theft conviction in Florida for stealing proprietary fishing information from a Florida-based website was vacated because his trial took place in the wrong state.
The ruling means that the government is free to retry an already convicted defendant even if he was tried in the wrong venue.
For centuries the law has mandated that a criminal defendant must be tried where the crime was committed. And nowadays when crimes take place over the internet, as allegedly happened here, the legal rules determining where the crime took place are often unclear….