Judge Wu recounts the November 2008 misdemeanor verdicts and deadlocked conspiracy count, then grants acquittal. Treating intentional terms-of-service breach alone as a CFAA misdemeanor would criminalize commonplace conduct and raise vagueness and overbreadth problems.
Drew was subsequently acquitted by a jury of the felony CFAA counts but convicted of misdemeanor CFAA violations.
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Judge Wu recounts the November 2008 misdemeanor verdicts and deadlocked conspiracy count, then grants acquittal. Treating intentional terms-of-service breach alone as a CFAA misdemeanor would criminalize commonplace conduct and raise vagueness and overbreadth problems. The indictment expressly warned that not all allegations were established at trial. The jury verdict PDF opened only as “NOT FOR PUBLIC VIEW.”