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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by rdtsc on Saturday January 12, 2013 @10:15PM (#5049834)
Actually if they drained his accounts and froze his assets and promised to shove in him a prison with hardened criminals for up to 50 years, where he could face assaults, rape and abuse (more so probably than the average hardened street criminal) killing himself didn't seem like such an irrational choice.
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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by grogenaut on Saturday January 12, 2013 @11:29PM (#5049973)
The point remains that the prosecutor did not kill him. He killed himself. Just trying to bring down the hyperbole on this thread... Speaking of which:

In reality he would have gone to a while collar prison and would have gotten the counseling he obviously needed. (edit spelling)

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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by temphn on Sunday January 13, 2013 @12:23AM (#5050068)
This is apologism for untrammeled abuse of power. He was being threatened with 35 years in federal prison for downloading some PDFs! He would have been 61 when he got out. They would have taken away 40-50% of his life.

Sometimes it is better to live free or die. The people who need "counseling" are Ortiz, Heymann, and the inhumane who'd defend or excuse this travesty. Just following orders, blind legalism.

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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by Kylekramer on Sunday January 13, 2013 @12:42AM (#5050097)
And the hyperbole is back. He hadn't been convicted and would never have served anything close to 35 years even if he was.
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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by temphn on Sunday January 13, 2013 @05:01AM (#5050435)
Oh, right. He wouldn't have gotten 35 years, only a felony conviction with 5-10 years in federal prison for downloading some pdfs. So hyperbolic to be enraged about this!
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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by lclarkmichalek on Sunday January 13, 2013 @06:42AM (#5050575)
Get used to the hyperbole. This issue has made HN completely insane it seems.
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