All posts tagged "Text Messages"

Attorneys for a northern Illinois man accused of killing his wife want allegedly explicit text messages sent by the victim introduced as evidence as possible justification for the violent confrontation.

An Alaska police officer has been arrested and charged with soliciting a 12-year-old girl for sex using a village-issued cell phone.

An engineer charged with obstructing justice in connection with the 2010 BP well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico has been found guilty of obstructing justice by deleting text messages from his mobile phone.

On Tuesday, a state appeals court in New Jersey ruled that texters can be held civilly responsible if they "knew or had special reason to know that the recipient would view the text while driving and thus be distracted." The Appellate Division of the Superior Court emphasized that the primary obligation to avoid reading or writing text messages while driving belongs to the driver, but it also created a "duty of care" obligation on those who knowingly send text messages to drivers.

A blizzard of text messages sent and received by Steubenville, Ohio rape suspect and football player and his friends paint a harrowing and horrifying portrait of the night of the alleged gang rape. Yahoo! Sports reported that for more than two hours on Tuesday, forensic specialist JoAnn Gibb read selections from the thousands of text messages that were sent and received on the night of the incident and in its aftermath.