For the second time this week, I have just finished reading the transcript of the Julie Amero case. For the second time this week, I am sitting at my desk, wondering why this case was prosecuted. And for the second time this week, I was questioning myself on if I still might want to go to law school or do computer forensic work, when a majority of society - and indeed the Connecticut criminal justice system, the system I would most likely be working with/for - is still technologically illiterate.

For the next week or so, I will be going through the transcript witness by witness and issue by issue, and posting what I think about it. Don’t worry, I’ll be attaching the appropriate part of the transcript to the entry so that you can download it yourself and read it if you wish.

Sentencing for her case was originally scheduled for March 2. Luckily, that date was then postponed until today. But it has been postponed again, this time until the end of April. That gives the State another month to see the errors they made in this case, and to motion the court to set aside the verdict, and dismiss the charges, which carry a total of 40 years imprisonment (10 years per charge).