COMPUTER HACKER'S TRIAL DELAYED AGAIN.Byline: Peter Hartlaub Daily News Staff Writer A judge granted computer hacker Kevin Mitnick Kevin David Mitnick (born October 6, 1963) is a controversial computer cracker and convicted criminal in the United States. Mitnick was convicted in the late 1990s of illegally gaining access to computer networks and stealing intellectual property. another trial date delay Thursday and indicated the man accused of helping him would be tried in front of a separate jury. But U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer Mariana Pfaelzer is a U.S. District Court Judge in the Ninth Circuit. She is probably best remembered for her role in striking down California's Proposition 187, which would have denied services to illegal aliens. warned Mitnick this would be the last delay in a case that has stretched for years. ``The court wants to go to trial,'' she said. Mitnick's trial date was bumped from Jan. 19 to April 20 at the request of Mitnick's attorney, Donald Randolph. Mitnick has been in a federal lockup See hang and abend. waiting for trial without bail since May 1996, although he was serving a sentence part of that time for a different set of hacking crimes. The former San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. resident faces 25 charges including damaging computers and stealing software. Pfaelzer also said she planned to grant a request from Lewis DePayne to sever his case from Mitnick's and be tried separately. DePayne is not in custody and faces 14 counts of aiding and abetting a·bet tr.v. a·bet·ted, a·bet·ting, a·bets 1. To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on. 2. Mitnick. ``I am going to sever. I think I am,'' the judge said, after DePayne's attorney, Richard Sherman, broached the subject. ``I wasn't going to do that, but the more that goes on in this case, the more I think it's appropriate.'' Sherman still needs to file a motion to sever, which U.S. Attorney's Office prosecutors said they will protest. |
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