
The infamous iPad hacker will get another day in court, and this time, he'll have a dream team of lawyers to defend him. Andrew Auernheimer, also known as Weev , was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Monday for computer crimes In a blog post on Thursday, Orin Kerr, a former federal prosecutor and an expert in computer crime law, announced he was joining his defense team pro bono and he also confirmed that they had filed a notice of appeal ( PDF ), the initial step in the appeal process Kerr joins Auernheimer's trial lawyer Tor Ekeland, and two attorneys from the Internet civil rights advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation , Marcia Hofmann and Hanni Fakhoury. The two announced they were joining the case on Monday Read more »