Can a person get in trouble with the law for these?

[sunnygirl1255]

Ok, so these 2 situations really happened and a friend doesn't believe which one if any of them, you can get in trouble for. Plus I have to do these situations and a few more for a CJ/Law class final! Please help me out! Thanks!

Situation 1: A friend hacks into another friends twitter. The friend's twitter than was hacked into doesn't keep her password private. She also writes about all her other friends on this twitter.
Now the friend who hacked into the twitter does NOT write anything or do anything at all to the twitter. The ONLY thing she does is read the tweets written by the other friend.

Situation 2: 2 friends buy concert tickets. 1 friend keeps them at her house for safe keeping. Friend #1 decides she doesn't want to go anymore due to money issues and wants to sell her ticket that she has paid for. So friend #1 is selling her ticket. Friend #2 takes it upon herself WITHOUT asking friend #1 and tries to sell friend #1's ticket for her. Friend #1 is upset by this and Friend #2 doesn't think she did anything wrong. Legally, the ticket is NOT Friend #2's. So can she sell the ticket that she did NOT pay for and its NOT hers?

Can any of these friends get the other in trouble with the law or sue each other?

This is for a CJ/law class! I have to research these plus many more for a final!

[Billy Bob]

No..

[Zog]

Situation 1, it is illegal to access another's account, Different states carry different laws about this with different penalties so you would have to check with that states statutes to determine the exact violation plus it is against twitters rules.

Situation 2, Again it depends on the particular states statutes but with what you have written you have not stated any intent to deprive friend 1 of the value of the ticket so friend 2's intent was to help friend 2 sell her ticket. Larceny or theft has to have the intent to deprive the owner of something and that wasn't friend 2's intent, friend 2's actions may not have been proper but it certainly didn't meet the criteria of a criminal act.