Find My iPhone Will Get You in Jail

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So there you are one evening, hanging out with your kids, when one of them can't find the iPad to further rot their minds with. So you tap on the "Find My iPhone" app that is there for, you guessed it, finding your device. Your iPad is booking down a local highway so of course you want to find out what is up with that. Then BAM! Your old lady is banging the boss and now you are going to jail for finding out.


In July, authorities indicted Donis on charges of unlawful surveillance and felony burglary. He told the New York Post he felt like he was being punished twice for his wife’s infidelity.
 
Love those tags lol.

There was a report on the TSA and a mess reporter had tracked a stolen ipad. they tracked it down to one of the TSA employees homes.

Should the reporter be in jail now?

I mean he has a camera too.

Any lawyer worth a fuck can get this thrown out.

Hell if the judge has a brain in his head he'd throw it out.
 
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Yeah, it isn't the find your phone feature; it's entering a home that isn't yours and then filming the occupants.

I am a bit surprised they chose to prosecute and level such weighty charges however; hopefully the judge shows some leniency. Shitty.
 
There might be more to the story. Is it not possible that the guy put the tablet into the wife's car so he could find her as he suspected her infidelity? Sure, the kid wanting to use it sounds better, but let's face facts. You usually don't just stumble upon your wife's lover looking for a lost iPad just as your wife's lover didn't just stumble into her vag jay jay.
 
Way to hop on the bashing Apple bandwagon.

I think the 'surveillance' charge is more for recording them in bed not tracking them with 'Find my iPhone'.
 
DarkStar02 said:
It probably wouldn't have gone that way if he hadn't filmed and walked into the guys house. Still sucks though.
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Yea, though I think he can beat the surveilance thing
TwistedAegis said:
Yeah, it isn't the find your phone feature; it's entering a home that isn't yours and then filming the occupants.

I am a bit surprised they chose to prosecute and level such weighty charges however; hopefully the judge shows some leniency. Shitty.
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Actually, I tend to find the filming justified. His wife's infidelity is grounds for a legal action and filming proof would be evidence for the case. I think that the moment it was observed that she was cheating, the filming would be justifiable. The breaking and entering not so much.
 
Spidey329 said:
There might be more to the story. Is it not possible that the guy put the tablet into the wife's car so he could find her as he suspected her infidelity? Sure, the kid wanting to use it sounds better, but let's face facts. You usually don't just stumble upon your wife's lover looking for a lost iPad just as your wife's lover didn't just stumble into her vag jay jay.
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This sounds pretty plausible due to the line here:

"...but when his son’s iPad location picked up at Lopez’s house, his fears were confirmed that she was cheating."

So he had suspicions and planted the iPad then went as far as having his phone ready to record. The sentence is way too harsh given the circumstances. Really curious to see if a jury/judge would show sympathy for the guy in this case or side with the clearly-in-the-wrong- wife.
 
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lcpiper said:
Actually, I tend to find the filming justified. His wife's infidelity is grounds for a legal action and filming proof would be evidence for the case. I think that the moment it was observed that she was cheating, the filming would be justifiable. The breaking and entering not so much.
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I think in most states however, cheating isn't breaking a law; further, two wrongs don't make a right. If you're trespassing and see the occupants doing something wrong, you aren't justified to film it.

And even if it were, she was supposed to be out with friends - was that probable cause to enter someone else's property, and film them in it? I think not, however much I sympathize with his reason.
 
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So does this also apply to runaway teens with iPhone or iPad which might get their parents in trouble for invading their privacy?

Justice is screwed up.
 
Seems like the guy was bound to come out on top until he entered the premises and started filming.
 
15 years is the max. As no one was hurt, nothing was stolen, and really nothing happened I expect the guidelines will call for much less. If the judge has a heart he will let the man go.
 
DarkStar02 said:
It probably wouldn't have gone that way if he hadn't filmed and walked into the guys house. Still sucks though.
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Yeah, why did he do that? It tells me he knew this was going on for a while and was increasingly insecure about it, which led to filming it.
A unsuspecting man seeing something like that for the first time would have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
 
lcpiper said:
Actually, I tend to find the filming justified. His wife's infidelity is grounds for a legal action and filming proof would be evidence for the case. I think that the moment it was observed that she was cheating, the filming would be justifiable. The breaking and entering not so much.
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There was no breaking.
 
He was supposed to be watching his kid(s), but drove over there to catch them in the act. Where was the kid in all of this? Sitting in the car or left alone at home?
 
Calling it: Probation and fine for walking in the guy's house.
Spidey329 said:
There might be more to the story. Is it not possible that the guy put the tablet into the wife's car so he could find her as he suspected her infidelity?
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+100
 
He should have done what any normal person does. Murder her and frame the guy she was cheating with.
 
You expect justice in a state that has a mayor thinks private property should be outlawed?

Blue states should have been the red states.
 
Typically burglary requires breaking and entering with the intention of committing another offense offense such as theft. Not a lawyer but sounds to me like the prosecutor is overcharging.

Sure the guy trespasses into an unlocked house but felony burglary? Is the intended crime unlawful recording? A defense lawyer would probably argue that the recording was a spur of the moment decision and that he did not enter the house with the intention of committing any other crime. Burglary requires intent during the entering which I don't think has been proven here.
 
So after doing some quick google-fu, according to this site he didn't commit burglary, but trespass. He didn't intend to commit a crime, he intended to get his iPad back.
 
...or you're the old lady who runs down her phone and finds her husband banging the boss (who just also happens to be a man; or someone who thinks she's a man).
 
Sonicks said:
This sounds pretty plausible due to the line here:

"...but when his son’s iPad location picked up at Lopez’s house, his fears were confirmed that she was cheating."

So he had suspicions and planted the iPad then went as far as having his phone ready to record. The sentence is way too harsh given the circumstances. Really curious to see if a jury/judge would show sympathy for the guy in this case or side with the clearly-in-the-wrong- wife.
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You mean to say would the judge had thrown the wife in jail if the husband was fucking his 20 something year old secretary while the wife was at home raising 3 kids after giving up her professional career?
 
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