TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Boston Police Make Arrest in Devices Ploy

Re: Boston Police Make Arrest in Devices Ploy

Sam Spade (sam@coldmail.com)
Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:05:58 -0800

Garrett Wollman wrote:

> In article <telecom26.32.1@telecom-digest.org>,
> Ken Maguire, AP <ap@telecom-digest.org> wrote:

>> Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said he'll seek to punish those
>> responsible, and indicated that the penalty could be two to five years
>> in prison per count.

> What Mumbles didn't mention was that, in order to convict someone
> under the state's "hoax device" law, prosecutors must prove "intent to
> cause anxiety, unrest, fear or personal discomfort to any person or
> group of persons" (M.G.L. chap. 266, sec. 102a1/2(a)), which seems to
> this untrained eye rather unlikely.

Perhaps they can turn it over to the feds and prosecute under some
Homeland Security statue.

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