I'm trying to understand how Gaskill is being charged, here.
He gave a different address to avoid being swatted himself. It is now "conspiracy, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice" to exercise one's instinct of self-preservation?
Can someone with a better handle of the law than myself explain how Gaskill's actions are unlawful?
He instructed other people to delete tweets/messages after learning someone died to cover up what happened. That seems like obstruction and conspiracy to me.
I think it is a stretch to call tweeting a wrong address "wire fraud" though.
I think his main crimes are conspiring(1) to delete evidence(2) (obstruction). I'm not sure what "wire fraud" is for — maybe just by virtue of (1) and (2) being done online instead of by phone, letter, or in person.
Sounds like he knew the address he gave was going to be swatted and intentionally gave a valid address of someone else. A rational person would have just not answered the question.
That's not what he was charged with, AFAICT. That would be manslaughter or something along those lines, right? I think he's getting charged entirely for the cover-up.
He gave a different address to avoid being swatted himself. It is now "conspiracy, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice" to exercise one's instinct of self-preservation?
Can someone with a better handle of the law than myself explain how Gaskill's actions are unlawful?