The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to limit the type of conduct that can be prosecuted under a federal computer fraud law in a case it took up on Monday involving a former Georgia police officer convicted after agreeing to investigate whether a purported local stripper was an undercover cop.
A police officer is mostly alone on the plaza in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building during the coronavirus disease outbreak in Washington, U.S., April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Van Buren was convicted in 2017 on two federal charges arising from an FBI sting operation two years earlier and was sentenced to 18 months in prison, which he has yet to serve. Van Buren, suffering financial difficulties, had asked a local man, Andrew Albo, for money. Albo alerted law enforcement authorities and the FBI devised a sting in which Albo offered to pay Van Buren money to run a search for a license plate on a law enforcement database. Albo’s fictional story was that he wanted to find out if a local stripper was an undercover cop.
The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019 threw out the honest services fraud conviction. Van Buren then appealed to the Supreme Court to try to overturn the computer fraud conviction. Prosecutors plan to retry him on the honest services charge.
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