Sarah Palin hacker loses appeal against evidence deletion
The former college student imprisoned for hacking the email account of Sarah Palin has had his appeal against the charge on which he was convicted rejected by a US court.
David Kernell, who has already been released after serving 11 months for his hacking the former vice Presidential candidate’s Yahoo account in 2008, had appealed against his conviction for obstructing the course of justice.
After guessing his way into Palin’s account and publishing images and emails he found there, Kernell then allegedly set out to cover his tracks, removing traces of what he’d done from his computer. Kernell's legal team argued that he had not been contacted by police at that point and convicting him on the charge was in effect a criminalisation of his acts before he was aware he might be obstructing justice.
