(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the conviction of a man accused of stealing the personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad users, including big-city mayors, a TV network news anchor and a Hollywood movie mogul. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the November 2012 conviction of Andrew Auernheimer by a jury in Newark, New Jersey, and the resulting 41-month prison sentence, could not stand because the case did not belong in that state to begin with. Auernheimer had been convicted of one count of conspiracy to access ATT Inc servers without permission and one count of identity theft. The improper venue here – far from where he performed any of his allegedly criminal acts – denied Auernheimers substantial right to be tried in the place where his alleged crime was committed, Circuit Judge Michael Chagares wrote for a unanimous three-judge 3rd Circuit panel.
U.S. appeals court voids conviction in celebrity iPad hacking
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