Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud

Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by wavegeek on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:34PM (#14933245)

> Prosecutors don't charge people if they aren't fairly confident that the evidence will result in a conviction.

Yes they do. They throw a huge array of charges, provable or now, at people with the intent to scare them.

Punishing people for refusing to plead guilty should be a crime.

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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by tptacek on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:23PM (#14933479)

However often that may happen in non-computer cases, it doesn't appear to have happened in this case; you can read the whole indictment in less than 4 minutes.

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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by rayiner on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:43PM (#14933289)

Example?

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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by cvwright on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:59PM (#14933363)

Aaron Swartz?

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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by nl on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:38PM (#14933553)

All the changes there were ridiculous, but easily provable.

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