Software Counterfeiting

This essay was written for a Fall 2010 cybercrime course and outlines some of the problems faced as a result of software counterfeiting. Software Counterfeiting When the founding fathers created the Constitution, they made an odd inclusion; they included a provision...

Cybercrime Amendment

This was an extra credit assignment I completed for a cybercrime course in the fall of 2010, the question was: “Write a new amendment to the Constitution which covers criminal cases involving computers that are forefathers would have written had they been alive today....

Cybercrime

I wrote this paper as part of a law class in the spring of 2010. It details some types of cybercrime as well as the methods that US prosecutors utilize in prosecuting them. One of the more interesting things was that cybercriminals can be prosecuted in the USA despite...

Ashcroft vs. Free Speech Coalition

Ah, the never ending tug of war between personal freedoms. Ashcroft vs the Free Speech Coalition concerns child pornography and the battle between free speech and the protection of minors. Of particular note is a brief political discussion where I argue that personal...

Was Hinckley a miscarriage of justice?

This is from a post I wrote in response to the question of whether or not the finding that John Hinckley Jr. being found insane was a miscarriage of justice. I approach it more from the political and moral aspects of our modern legal foundations, enjoy! (this was a...