The former University of Michigan assistant football coach accused of hacking the email, social media and cloud storage accounts of thousands of female athletes from across the country and downloading their intimate photos and videos asked a federal judge on Tuesday to throw out half of the case, arguing that the government is trying to “turbocharge punishments for routine computer trespass." Matthew Weiss, who spent 12 years in the NFL and was an offensive coordinator for one of college football’s most prestigious programs, was fired from the University of Michigan in 2023. He was indicted and pleaded not guilty in March to multiple counts of unauthorized computer access and multiple counts of aggravated identity theft that, together, carry a maximum sentence of nine decades in prison. We

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