Flutterby™! : Mike Jones story

Must read: Daze Reader had a link to The Mike Jones Story. Summary: Photographer sets up porn website to display his wares. Busybody in town takes offense and starts calling in false accusations of child porn to local police. Prosecutor decides to take him down, so when they couldn't get an obscenity charge to stick they used a thumbnail page in his browser cache that might have had underage models on it as the basis for a child porn posession prosecution. So, how many times have you stumbled across something and hit the "back" button? Yep, that might be used in court.

The case eventually got dropped because they got that evidence thrown out on the basis of an overly broad search warrant, but it's a reminder that the law is so ridiculous now that if a prosecutor decides they want to put you in jail, they can almost always find a way.