Julie Amero gets a new trial
Jun 6th, 2025 by Viviane
Substitute teacher Julie Amero, who had convicting of allow her students to accidentally view pop-up porn, was to have been sentenced today. Instead, her lawyers have successfully moved for a new trial.
From theday.com:
“Judge Hillary Strackbein said the state had conducted further forensic information that the jury had not heard at the trial. The information, according to defense experts, was that the computer had generated pornographic popups and that Amero, a substitute teacher, was not at fault. Amero had been convicted of four counts of risk of injury to a minor and faced up to 40 years in prison.”
BoingBoing has a post relating the defense’s technical expert’s experience:
“We asked the prosecution to arrange for the defense to have unfettered access to the internet so that we could reenact the events of October 19, 2004. It was not granted. I went to court with two laptops and a box full of reference material prepared to very clearly illustrate what happened to Julie Amero. But, the prosecution objected because they were not given “full disclosure” of my examination. I was allowed to illustrate two screens, that of the www.hair-styles.org , and www.new-hair-styles.com sites.
This was one of the most frustrating experiences of my career, knowing full well that the person is innocent and not being allowed to provide logical proof.”