Circuit Court Upholds Convictions of Former Jaguars Contractor in Videoboard Hacking Case

By Robert J. Romano, JD, LLM, St. John’s University, Senior Writer In the federal criminal case of United States v. Thompson, No. 24-11009, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the convictions of Samuel Arthur Thompson on ten federal criminal counts arising from computer hacking, child pornography offenses, firearm possession, and violations of federal sex-offender registration requirements.[1] In the opinion authored by Circuit Judge Britt C. Grant, a unanimous panel re