The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Case summary: A person OM along with nine others were convicted for conspiring terrorism. The evidence that supported the charges against him included his social media posts. The person OM appealed that the social media posts were not proved to be his own.
To find:The connection between the posts on social media and the person posting it as alleged by the government.
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