Emails as evidence?

I have come into some very disturbing emails regarding an acquantance's exwife.

Aside from being very graphic (dirty pics of herself, etc), some emails describe drug use, etc.

I want to give this to my friend but do not want to get into any trouble (or anyone else) because the emails are the result of answering some questions and gaining access to the email account (a free account like yahoo or hotmail). I was nosey in a bad way. I had my own suspicions about the x and the acquantance is a decent guy. So I played around and answered some stuff and whatya know..I was in. The x no longer has access as a result so it has been written off as a screwed up account.

The information could result in child custody battle and more. Possibly jail.

There is stuff in here that could would be hard to prove otherwise, due to no schedule of the drug abuse, etc.

What can I do? I am sure some sorta tracks were left.

By which those emails were obtained, the tables can be turned on the person who obtained them, that being which is called identifty theft, wrongful use of a computer. The discovery of the information was done under false identity. It doesn't matter what was in the email, you haven't a warrant nor probable cause to access this persons email account.

Forgive me for finding this original posting incredibly ironic and blatantly hypocritical. The scenario you describe reminds me of someone breaking and entering into someone's home and finding marijuana growing there. Instead of thinking, "Wow, I just broke the law by breaking into someone else's home", you're thinking, "Wow, someone who is doing 'more wrong' than I am".

I do believe the High Road called. They've revoked your pass to be on it.