Adultery is a crime, judge tells man suing wife for reading lovers' emails
Lawyers who practice before Chicago's most fearsome jurist have learned to beware the poison quill of U.S. Appellate Judge Richard Posner. But Posner's latest lashing isn't for an attorney. It's for a man who sued his wife for reading private emails he allegedly sent his lovers. Adultery is still a crime in Illinois, Posner noted in a scathing opinion published last week. And "though it is a crime that is very rarely prosecuted," 70-year-old accountant Barry Epstein was improperly "seeking a reward for concealing criminal activity" when he sued his wife, Posner wrote. The wife, Paula Epstein, filed for divorce after 41 years of marriage in 2011, accusing Barry Epstein of cheating, court papers
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