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Jul 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM CDT
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Jul 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM CDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Missouri mother is facing sentencing for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who later killed herself.
Lori Drew could get up to three years in prison if she's sentenced in a Los Angeles courtroom today after being convicted in November on three misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization.
But a defense motion to dismiss the convictions has received a lengthy review from U.S. District Judge George Wu, who delayed Drew's sentencing in May to review the testimony of two prosecution witnesses.
Drew's case has drawn much attention as the nation's first cyberbullying trial.
Prosecutors say Drew helped create a fictitious teen boy and sent flirtatious messages to Megan Meier on the social networking site.
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