{"id":33849,"date":"2021-06-07T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/?p=33849"},"modified":"2022-09-08T14:52:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:52:55","slug":"a-divided-supreme-court-emphasizes-its-shared-concern-with-overcriminalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/a-divided-supreme-court-emphasizes-its-shared-concern-with-overcriminalization\/","title":{"rendered":"“Extra Icing on a Cake Already Frosted”: The Supreme Court’s Continuing Concern with Overcriminalization"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ExtraYou know the Supreme Court of the United States feels strongly about an issue when, in the Court\u2019s parlance, it adds \u201cextra icing on a cake already frosted.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is, in effect, what the Court did in Van Buren v. United States<\/em> (No.19-783), an opinion issued last Thursday in which the Court reversed the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in a prosecution arising under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).\u00a0 After considering \u201cthe text, context, and structure\u201d of the CFAA, the Court resolved the issue in dispute\u2014i.e.<\/em>, the cake was \u201cfrosted.\u201d\u00a0 But the Court then added \u201cextra icing\u201d and emphasized\u2014again\u2014its profound concerns with federal prosecutors using broad federal criminal laws to target ordinary, seemingly innocent conduct.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

Van Buren<\/em> concerned a \u201cGeorgia police sergeant [Van Buren] using his patrol-car computer to access a law enforcement database to retrieve information about a particular license plate number in exchange for money.\u201d\u00a0 While he \u201cused his own, valid credentials to perform the search, his conduct violated a department policy against obtaining database information for non-law-enforcement purposes.\u201d\u00a0 The issue was whether Van Buren had \u201cexceed[ed] authorized access\u201d in violation of the CFAA by accessing the database for an improper purpose.<\/p>\n

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