Conviction Stands Against Palin Hacker
Conviction Stands Against Palin Hacker
(CN) - A man convicted of hacking Sarah Palin's email account during the 2008 presidential election cannot overturn the charge that he obstructed justice by trying to cover his tracks, the 6th Circuit ruled.
David Kernell already put in the time for the crimes of which he was convicted, but he appealed the obstruction of justice conviction shortly after his November release from a halfway house.
In 2010, a jury found him guilty of obtaining information from a protected computer and of trying to hide the evidence.
When Palin was campaigning with Republican presidential nominee John McCain in 2008, Kernell reset the password for the then-governor of Alaska's Yahoo email account and bragged about his feat on an online message board.
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