Substitute Teacher Gets New Trial on stuff Charges

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This is a very good thing. This poor woman was pretty much completely computer illiterate but wound up convicted and facing 40 years when the classroom computer she used was infected with stuff spamware.

A New London Superior court judge this morning overturned the conviction of Julie Amero, who was found guilty of exposing Norwich schoolchildren to pornography on a computer, and has granted Amero a new trial.

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.

She has has been the subject of national attention as of result of the conviction, and seemed relieved after Attorney William Dow explained the judge's ruling.

"I have a great team behind me and I feel very comfortable with the rulings," she said before getting into a car with her husband and leaving.

"It was a stuff trap," said Chip Neville, a retired computer sciences professor who had petitioned the office of the Chief State's Attorney to review the verdict.

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I have to agree. I was very surprised when she was convicted to begin with. If they start throwing people in jail that get spammed with stuff then it's going to get very very crowded in jail.

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I have to agree. I was very surprised when she was convicted to begin with. If they start throwing people in jail that get spammed with stuff then it's going to get very very crowded in jail.

People who make stuff spam should be jailed.