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Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz (ars technica)Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz (ars technica)Posted Jan 17, 2013 13:50 UTC (Thu) by freemars (subscriber, #4235)Parent article: Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz (ars technica) The US Attorney is now backpedaling furiously -- "a sentence that we would recommend to the judge of six months in a low security setting" (http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/01/17/us-attorney-statement-on-the-prosecution-of-aaron-swartz/). It's too bad Atty Ortiz didn't manage to convince Swartz or his lawyer that was the case.
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Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz (ars technica) Posted Jan 17, 2013 17:42 UTC (Thu) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205) [Link]
What a ludicrous statement. That the attorney general would ever indicate they'd be lenient, when they were prosecuting a political target for a made-up crime.
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