Defense will try to derail cyber-bullying case

September 4, 2008 By Robert Patrick

A federal judge in Los Angeles could decide Thursday whether to allow use of an untested legal theory to prosecute a woman accused of helping cyber-bully a St. Louis area teen who killed herself.



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