sentencing
RSS sentencinge-Crime: the Vladimir Levin Episode
White Paper The sentencing of Vladimir Levin on 24 February 1998 brought to a conclusion the most high profile case of cyber crime to date. The saga - which almost resembles a Hollywood blockbuster - began in July 1994 when customers complained of $400,000... [27 Feb 2008]
Tech to cut red tape and leave police to police
News This allows first hearings, and in some cases sentencing, to be heard without the need to produce a prisoner at court - cutting the average time between charging a suspect and a first hearing for bail cases from nine-and-a-half days to less than... [08 Feb 2008]
Sex spammers squashed by FTC
News He is awaiting sentencing on those charges. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down four illegal internet spam operations, including two that hijacked computers to send sexually explicit spam. [15 Sep 2006]
ID thieves face porridge threat
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) will first undertake a public consultation on the new sentencing proposals. The government is proposing to introduce tough new penalties that could see identity thieves jailed for up to two years. [25 Jul 2006]
Kumar admits guilt in CA fraud scandal
News A sentencing is scheduled for 12 September, 2006. Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive of CA, pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of financial fraud, part of a bookkeeping scandal that tarred the software company's image. [25 Apr 2006]
Home Office loans laptops to prisoners
News The Home Office claims the move will help prisoners and people awaiting sentencing to understand the legal process and prepare their case, especially if it is deemed 'complex'. Prisoners are to be given laptops to research evidence set out against... [08 Mar 2006]
Offender risk assessment IT system two years late
News But the project has been beset by delays and silicon.com reported last February that the project was running behind schedule because of the work needed to enable the IT systems to support the sentencing provisions of the 2003 Criminal Justice Act. [30 Jan 2006]
Ex-software CEO guilty of stealing trade secrets
News Sentencing is scheduled for next spring. Sentencing for O'Neil and the other two defendants, Robert McKimmey, former CTO of Business Engine Software, and William McMenamin, its former sales chief, is scheduled for 17 May 2006 in the US district... [12 Dec 2005]
P2P pirates face more time in the slammer
News The US Sentencing Commission on Wednesday approved an emergency set of rules that would boost prison sentences by roughly 40 per cent for people convicted of peer-to-peer infringement of copyright works "being prepared for commercial distribution". [21 Oct 2005]
National databases linked to track fine dodgers
News In a press statement, Harriet Harman, constitutional affairs minister, said: "Fines and community penalties can only be credible sentencing options if they're enforced properly. The government has allowed magistrates access to police intelligence... [23 Sep 2005]
Man pleads guilty to selling Windows code online
News Hecker added that it is up to the judge to determine whether he will accept the sentencing guideline the parties worked out under the plea agreement. A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty in federal court to selling Microsoft source code over the... [31 Aug 2005]
EDS wins £39m justice system deal
News It will also support the introduction of new sentencing legislation in 2006 and provide the capability to link to police, courts and Crown Prosecution Service. Outsourcing giant EDS has won a £39m deal to develop the technology to create a single... [04 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.07.05
Round-Up It's a fairly uncommon approach to sentencing when you think somebody has acted in a criminal manner serious enough to warrant a quarter of a century in jail and yet you give them nearly three months to make their own way there. [15 Jul 2005]
Devil's Advocate: How wrong were the DrinkOrDie pirates?
Comment To many, the recent sentencing of the DrinkOrDie software pirates was the end of a drawn-out trial. But to Martin Brampton it was just the beginning of a larger discussion on the true nature of the software industry and the vagaries of intellectual... [10 May 2005]
$200,000 eBay scammer jailed for six years
News In a truly strange turn of events, Stergios threw a water pitcher at Frank while testimony in the case was being heard last Friday, delaying his sentencing until this week. A federal judge in the US has sentenced a man to more than six years in... [07 Apr 2005]
