Supreme Court Won’t Acquit Alleged Hacker in Fishing Data Theft

Supreme Court Won’t Acquit Alleged Hacker in Fishing Data Theft
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito poses in Washington on April 23, 2021. Erin Schaff/Pool via Reuters
Matthew Vadum
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The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against an Alabama man whose trade secrets theft conviction in Florida for stealing proprietary fishing information from a Florida-based website was vacated because his trial took place in the wrong state.

The ruling means that the government is free to retry an already convicted defendant even if he was tried in the wrong venue.