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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 1468248" data-attributes="member: 246624"><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/01/googe.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Lee Harbert was a San Francisco-based investment banker with a history of DUIs. On Jan. 11, 2005, he killed 55-year-old Gurdeep Kaur in a hit-and-run with his Jaguar. Google <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10143275-38.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20" target="_blank">got him convicted</a>.&nbsp;Harbert claimed he thought he&#039;d hit a deer, which meant he wouldn&#039;t have needed to stop and help the person he mowed down, and police had originally said they were looking for a burgundy Jag, while his was black, so he had no idea what he&#039;d done.&nbsp;But, when police searched his computer, they found Google searches from a couple days after the accident like, &quot;auto parts, auto dealers out-of-state; auto glass, Las Vegas; auto glass reporting requirements to law enforcement, auto theft,&quot; according to the prosecutor. The coup de grace? He searched for &quot;hit-and-run,&quot; which he followed to a page about the hit-and-run he committed.&nbsp;The judge sentenced Harbert to three years (that&#039;s it?). Harbert appealed, and got his argument smacked down last week. So remember kids, don&#039;t search for a crime you recently committed, or at least do it on someone&#039;s computer. [<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10143275-38.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20" target="_blank">Cnet</a>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=9f5766dd7358e82b7140b94909a369c1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=8BofEvA0" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&lt;/img&gt;</a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Gt7z3Inb" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&lt;/img&gt;</a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=3sr0TLL2" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=3sr0TLL2" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&lt;/img&gt;</a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=IBZyDy8U" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=IBZyDy8U" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&lt;/img&gt;</a><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/QygYxlotWY8" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 1468248, member: 246624"] [IMG]http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/01/googe.jpg[/IMG]Lee Harbert was a San Francisco-based investment banker with a history of DUIs. On Jan. 11, 2005, he killed 55-year-old Gurdeep Kaur in a hit-and-run with his Jaguar. Google [URL="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10143275-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20"]got him convicted[/URL]. Harbert claimed he thought he'd hit a deer, which meant he wouldn't have needed to stop and help the person he mowed down, and police had originally said they were looking for a burgundy Jag, while his was black, so he had no idea what he'd done. But, when police searched his computer, they found Google searches from a couple days after the accident like, "auto parts, auto dealers out-of-state; auto glass, Las Vegas; auto glass reporting requirements to law enforcement, auto theft," according to the prosecutor. The coup de grace? He searched for "hit-and-run," which he followed to a page about the hit-and-run he committed. The judge sentenced Harbert to three years (that's it?). Harbert appealed, and got his argument smacked down last week. So remember kids, don't search for a crime you recently committed, or at least do it on someone's computer. [[URL="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10143275-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20"]Cnet[/URL]] [URL="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1"][IMG]http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1[/IMG][/URL][IMG]http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=9f5766dd7358e82b7140b94909a369c1[/IMG][URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=8BofEvA0"][IMG]http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Gt7z3Inb"][IMG]http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=3sr0TLL2"][IMG]http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=3sr0TLL2[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=IBZyDy8U"][IMG]http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=IBZyDy8U[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [IMG]http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/QygYxlotWY8[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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