Write a story; go to jail, epilogue: Case Dismissed!

But the felony charge stays on his record.

God bless Brian Robertson's Mom, who got the bright idea to Google the first sentence from his story (he borrowed a paragraph from a file he found on a school computer). (previous post about this story)

McFall, Robertson's attorney, said the tipping point in the case came when Robertson's mother uncovered new evidence last week that proved he didn't write the story's initial paragraph. After searching for the first sentence in Google, Kathy Robertson discovered the paragraph was part of a template that came on a CD-ROM for an Adobe PageMaker textbook.

"If the judge ever felt threatened by Brian Robertson as a dangerous student, this made it obvious that the writing was just an exercise in creativity," she said.