After more than a year in appeals, Andrew Weev Auernheimers conviction has been vacated, overturning the earlier ruling that sentenced the trollish security researcher to 41 months in prison. The original conviction tried Auernheimer in New Jersey, but the appeals court found the venue to be totally unrelated to the case, as neither Auernheimer nor ATTs servers were in the state, and the government failed to establish any further connection to justify the venue. For the moment, Auernheimer is still in custody at Allenwood Federal Penitentiary, but its expected that he will be released in the coming days. Judges seemed sympathetic to the larger case, noting that Auernheimer simply accessed the publicly facing portion of the login screen, but since the ruling focused on the venue issue, its unlikely to stand as a larger precedent.
The internet’s biggest troll just beat his conviction
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