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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Okay, set aside the consequences.
Invasion and publication of privacy is a crime punishable by up to 5 years.
Can you come up with a more brazen invasion and publication of privacy than this? Even if you look at something like the Erin Andrews national exposure - Erin Andrews is a public figure. For some college kid, posting it on DrudgeReport or some other national source isn't going to be much more damaging that merely circulating it amongst the local populace.
If any kind of conduct is punishable by the full 5 years allowed under the statute, this is it. I see no mitigating factors here. It was pre-meditated, it was done via false pretense (he told the kid that he would leave the room) and it was done with the clear intent of humiliating the kid. There's no silver lining to this, there's no justifiable influence.
This is precisely the kind of behavior this statute was designed to address.
Ignore whether or not the kid killed himself and ask just how much more egregious an invasion of privacy can get.
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A college prank gone wrong. Tell the jury these two young people should go sit in prison for 5 years. There was 0 premeditation. The kid was unstable and killed himself, a reasonably prudent person could not have forseen that consequence.