Was the judge ethically justified in discarding Cummings right to a fair trial?
• The judge refused to let Cummings speak and said that he had definitely violated probation, ordering him to be held on $250,000 bail, to be sentenced within 60 days. • He was sentenced 6 to 24 months in prison plus a $3,000 fine. • Craig Neidorf, an employee of Bellsouth, was arrested for distributing information that was thought to have been illegally obtained from the comp any. • A pre-law student at the University of Missouri and the editor of Phrack Magazine, was questioned first at home, then had his house searched, a nd then was called in for questioning by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago in 1990 in which he complied willingly. • On February 1, 1990 Neidorf was indicted by a grand jury on six counts including wire fraud, computer fraud, and transportation of stolen property greater than $5,000. • The trial began on July 23, 1990 in Chicago’s District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in which the prosecution withheld witnesses, one Secret Service agent, a frien
