Internet rape fantasy case dismissed

DETROIT -- A judge threw out charges yesterday against a University of Michigan student who wrote fantasies on the Internet about raping and killing a classmate. US District Judge Avern Cohn said Jake Baker expressed no intent of carrying out such acts. He said the tale was "only a rather savage and tasteless piece of fiction." Baker, 21, faced five counts of transmitting a threat to kidnap or injure by electronic mail. Each count is punishable by up to five years in prison. Baker was arrested in February after a University of Michigan alumnus read his story on the worldwide computer network a...