DAVID KERNELL INVESTIGATION: October 9, 2008:

David Kernell Indicted! UT Knoxville student and son of Memphis Democratic legislator has been indicted! Faces up to five years in prison, three years probation and $250,000 in fines. (From the Knoxville News-Sentinel.) A carbon-copy, shared resources, story with local comments from the Commercial Appeal. WBIR in Knoxville. Nashville’s Tennessean. Local television reports: WMC, WREG and another WREG story, My Eyewitness News.

A law professor looks at the indictment and asks if it is even valid. You can download the indictment here. (PDF document.)

Blogger reaction and discussion: From Slashdot, TN Guerilla Women (with more links), Democratic Underground, The Other McCain (with more links), the Register.

The Main Street Journal has an extensive archive of previous reporting and blog posting on this story.

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September 25, 2008: The FBI and the DOJ are continuing their investigation, despite not securing indictments in their first attempt. (Knoxville News-Sentinel story here.) PC World magazine sums up what happened this week and where things might go from here.

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Sept. 24, 2008: The Department of Justice presents a case to a grand jury and they decline to hand down an indictment. Terry Frank provides more background on Kernell’s attorney, Wade Davies. Wired has a story with more details and the full text of Davies’ statement to the press.

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Sept. 23, 2008: Was he tipped off before the raid? David met with his lawyer late Monday, Wade Davies. The Commercial Appeal and the Knoxville News-Sentinel seem to have combined reporters to create a single story that is being modified as new data become available. CA story here and KNS story here. Note the almost-identical URLs. Another report, from the Tennessean in Nashville.

WMC has a video report with at least one “witness” claiming to have seen two people running away from the area of the apartment about five minutes before the FBI showed up Saturday night. Was this Kernell; if so, who tipped him off?

My Eyewitness News has an AP story with no new information. WREG report.

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Previous media reports: The FBI visited the UT-Knoxville student apartment of suspected Palin email hacker early Sunday morning with a search warrant. Sunday Washington Post story. Nashville Tennessean story. Fox13 reports. WREG takes the cyber-security angle. An MSNBC discussion board on the topic. An early Tennessean report.

The Flyer reports in. Reports from My Eyewitness News, WMC, WREG.

Previous blog reports: The Other McCain notes the quiet of the major media, other than the AP. Gateway Pundit has more., as does The Other McCain. Wired. Michelle Malkin and many, many more links.

More information here and here from The Register. Gateway Pundit’s take, with another picture of David.

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Sites connected to David Kernell: David’s PeekYou webpage lists “hacking” as one of his interests. David’s MySpace page, which has been reset to “private.” Is this David Kernell on YouTube? (Account now closed and video removed.) David’s old website.

Memphis blogger reaction: Brain Release Valve; Fore Left; Volunteer TV; Rep. Stacey Campfield; LeftWing Cracker, The World According to Oatney, Newscoma, The Other McCain, Terry Frank. Sharon Cobb with direct contact with TN Rep. Mike Kernell, David’s father. Cherry Blossom Special wonders if it was an inside job. Mediaverse: Memphis says, “Enough!”.

Someone else has already noted that the person who did the Palin email hack changed her password to “popcorn.” Kernell = popcorn?

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TN State Rep. Mike Kernell: Rep. Kernell’s official webpage. He represents the 93rd District. His House Democratic Caucus webpage.

Kernell now has a Facebook support group. It was started by this person, Jody Hurt, whom LeftWing Cracker once described as “Mike Kernell’s right-hand person for over a decade, [who] has worked hard in every major Democratic campaign in Shelby County since the mid 1990s.”