The problem in the Aaron Swartz case was that MIT IT employees decided to make a federal case out of a trespass event with zero property damage, and MIT refused to release the names of those people. Subsequently there were many other sins of omission. MIT's senior leadership could have come out against the prosecution, for example. The enablers and excuse-makers disgust me.

My point was about the lack of trials for the overwhelming majority of defendants in the US. Schwartz's case was a well known example of that.

How so? He didn't take a plea bargain, so it seems like a poor example of defendants taking plea bargains.

He didn't take a plea bargain because even that was too onerous! He killed himself rather than face either a trial or plea.

It's also a good example as Schwart'z case is widely considered a blatant prosecutorial abuse of power, and symptomatic of a broken judicial system.