[dcolkitt]

I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. But at the end of the day, this defense is predicated on making a US federal judge understand all those technical details.

I think the most commonsense reform is to have computer crime handled by specialized courts, much the same as tax law currently is. These domains are simply too complex to have them handled by legal generalists, who are expected to learn it all from first principles on each and every case.

[pas]

Can't tax law cases eventually make it to the Supreme Court anyway?

[jskdvsksnb]

Anything can go to the supreme court if you try hard enough: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mandamus

But also yes, the Supreme Court has discretionary appeals jurisdiction over any federal case.

[bottled_poe]

What do you think this is? Some kind of meritocracy?