College student judicial hearing?

so i stole this guys password to access the internet (my account was inactive at the time), i'm not a bad guy...but i messed up and thats not the point. the point is, i have a hearing (a school hearing). i don't go to a ivy league or extremely strict zero tolerance school so i dont expect anything major to happen, i'm writing an opening statement. can someone read it? second (the more important issue)...ok so the guy who submitted the case works in the schools comp lab. he knows the witness (the guy who's password i took) and it seems they're friends. i really know nothing about law in general so is that ok?since this isn't a state issue and simply a school thing i didn't bother with a lawyer (that'd be ridicuous) but the "prosecutor" who works in the lab has been talking to the guy through facebook and wrote "Thanks Dave! I'm going after your guy on the 4th." even though he told me this is just a neccesary process and no one was out to get me. is that something i should bring up?

College student judicial hearing?
"college student judicial hearing? so i stole this guys password to access the internet (my account was inactive at the time), i'm not a bad guy...but i messed up and thats not the point. the point is, i have a hearing (a school hearing). i don't go to a ivy league or extremely strict zero tolerance school so i dont expect anything major to happen, i'm writing an opening statement. can someone read it? second (the more important issue)...ok so the guy who submitted the case works in the schools comp lab. he knows the witness (the guy who's password i took) and it seems they're friends. i really know nothing about law in general so is that ok?since this isn't a state issue and simply a school thing i didn't bother with a lawyer (that'd be ridicuous) but the "prosecutor" who works in the lab has been talking to the guy through facebook and wrote "Thanks Dave! I'm going after your guy on the 4th." even though he told me this is just a neccesary process and no one was out to get me. is that something i should bring up?"





There appears to be no quick answer to your question.





If your opening statement is too long to post here, then it's too long. Rewrite it and cut out anything that isn't entirely necessary.





Why did you steal access to an internet account? Why was your own access inactive? And what harm came of your theft? Did you send nasty emails? Access areas of the internet that are banned in the school library? Or what? Knowing the extent of your "crime" would help to give you advice about where to go with this.





Also, what "punishment" can you expect from the school? There should be a code of conduct and an explicit list of disciplinary measures that go with it.





Without knowing more, it's hard to give you a good answer.





That the victim knows the computer guy isn't prejudicial to your case-- since they didn't get together to make it up-- as you're actually guilty.





However, where the "prosecutor" has some ulterior motive in addressing the case, you should ask for someone else to be the "prosecutor" and ask for leniency in light of that information.





Given that your "crime" was not all that terrible-- simply accessing the internet via another users account-- nothing should happen except an administrative notation in your record. You should know, however, that it's dishonest things like stealing someone else's password that lead people to believe (often correctly) that a person is capable of doing worse-- more illegal activities. That's the real harm you did yourself here.





Hopefully you weren't just using someone else's account because you wanted to look at porn. Tell them you needed the internet for academic purposes (if true) and that you thought that was a harmless way to get access-- especially when you'd go back to using your own account afterwards.





If you were accessing porn or downloading music illegally (the only two reasons I can think for you using so much bandwith to get your own account suspended-- as you explained in a separate message), then just focus on how you thought it was harmless.





And don't do it-- or anything like it-- again. Because now you are suspect. And a repeat of such conduct will almost surely indicate you're someone who can't be trusted.