>>>>> "R" == R E Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...> writes:

R> merlyn@... wrote:
>> This is something we cannot permit the law to make illegal. If an
>> action of mine is not damaging enough to a company to have fired my
>> ass, why is it also then a felony?

R> One of the "problems" with your trial is that you should've said "NO"
R> to the question: "Was this for personal gain?" .

R> The way you answered that question was not the way it was intended.

Yeah, I know. In retrospect, while I know what I was thinking, that
was not the context of the question I was actually answering.

I was thinking...

let's see, if I do a job for the company, by helping them
with their security issue, they'll continue to hire me.
If they hire me some more, I'll make more money.
That'll be a gain for me... "personal" "gain".

and said...

Yes.

It's too bad they didn't have a big thought balloon above my head.
Then the jury would have seen that reasoning that seemed so clear to
me at the time.

Fsck. This all goes back to my first position. Never get into
a situation where you are the defendant in a criminal proceeding
in the first place. Ordinary people cannot prepare adequately for
the misdirection and miscontexting that can happen at a trial.

If you don't believe me, re-read the part where the prosecutor was
trying to make it look like the password file was removed knowingly
without authorization, by skipping over the words "from intel
property" as he was reading the document. Had I not caught him
misreading the document, it could have been a very specific nail in my
coffin. That's the kind of grueling thinking that it takes being up
on the witness stand. I was exhausted at the end of the day.

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