The Pennsylvania Superior Court has thrown out a conviction and sentence of four years’ probation given to a scorned ex-lover who is accused of accessing his former girlfriend’s email account.

A three-judge panel consisting of Judges Victor Stabile, Lillian Harris Ransom and Carolyn H. Nichols reversed Ayyakkannu Manivannan’s conviction on five counts of unlawful use of a computer and one count of harassment and remanded the case for a new trial.