Dmitri Sklyarov, the first person to be indicted under a 1998 digital copyright law, pleaded not guilty yesterday in federal court in San Jose, Calif., to four counts of trafficking in illegal technology and one count of conspiracy.
[Page C5.] Russian Programmer Enters Plea Dmitri Sklyarov, the first person to be indicted under a 1998 digital copyright law, pleaded not guilty to four counts of trafficking in illegal technology and one count of conspiracy in federal court.
Some of those Blackwater people may soon be indicted under an extraterritorial law for the American armed forces that was originally meant to keep order on military bases, not to control contractors elsewhere.Although this law could be more widely used, American prosecutors are loth to wade into such murky legal waters.
Mr. Stevenson was indicted under a state law that prohibited killing a cat "belonging to another".
Instead, Mr. Bruno, 80, was indicted under a federal anticorruption statute that makes it a crime to deprive citizens of "honest services" from their elected officials.
Though the Justice Department has listed the case as a prosecution under the Economic Espionage Act, the three men were indicted under a lesser statute and charged with conspiring to steal trade secrets and to possess stolen trade secrets.
A New Jersey father arrested last summer on charges that he punched an umpire while coaching at an all-star baseball game for 10-year-old boys has been indicted under a recent state law intended to curb rowdy adult behavior at youth athletic events.
Mr. Scrushy, whose lawyers argued yesterday that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is unconstitutional, is the first former chief executive to be indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance law, which makes it a crime to sign regulatory filings that contain fraudulent information.
Mr. Keys is the first reporter employed by a major news gathering organization to be indicted under the the Act.
Foreign officials, too, can be indicted under the rule, though this is unusual.
(He says often that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of Iran, should be indicted under the Genocide Convention, and his campaign has named the former C.I.A. counterterrorism chief, Cofer Black, the vice-chairman of Blackwater, as an adviser).
