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Crippen's case was to have been the first ever to reach a jury; one was seated on Tuesday.”It still has not hit me yet,” Crippen told Wired outside court.The investigator's testimony concerned Crippen himself placing a pirated video game inside the modded 360 to confirm it worked, which would have satisfied a legal test that Crippen knew he was breaking the law. Nowhere in earlier reports had the investigator said Crippen did such a thing; the replica DKNY NY4233 WoMen's watch prosecution said his newfound recollection came on Sunday.Wired has much more on the details of the case and its dismissal.Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox Modding Case Mid-Trial [Wired, thanks capeo; image via Wired]”The Xbox 360 criminal hacking trial began in Los Angeles with a bang.

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