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An acquittal for two surveillance video technicians who were charged with video voyeurism.
Michael Reilly and Jeremy Lewis, while working for the company Ask the Advisors in West Palm Beach, were accused of logging into a server they had installed at a Palm Beach home and then spending hours watching live and archived video of a couple undressing and even having sex.
Prosecutors explained it this way during closing arguments.
"The defendants intentionally used an imaging device to secretly view or record the victims for their amusement or sexual arousal."
Defense attorneys explained that the men were accessing video cameras they installed inside a couple's home for the purposes of troubleshooting.
"They are charged with something that they didn't do."
A jury on Thursday found Reilly and Lewis not guilty and attorney Michael Salnick says his clients were relieved.
"We had two individuals who were not only not guilty they were factually innocent. And I am glad that the jury understood that. They listened to the evidence. They looked at the facts. They dealt with the technology. And they came up with the right verdict."
Salnick, at trial, claimed that the information on the video logs was incorrect.
The couple admitted to not reading a contract they signed which allowed the defendants into the system at any time.
Reilly and Lewis, along with their former employer, still face a civil suit.
Ask the Advisors terminated them after the allegations came out.