Re:DOJ Elevated Its Charges Against Swartz Because Internet ...
by jack-r-abbit on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @05:06PM
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> Prosecutors eventually offered Swartz a deal to avoid trial in which heβd have to plead guilty to all 13 charges and spend six months behind bars. Two days later, on Jan. 11, 2013, Swartz hung himself.
Somehow I missed it before that they had come all the way down to 6 months in prison, and just 2 days before he killed himself. I thought he died still thinking he was facing 35 years in prison... not 6 months.
Somehow I missed it before that they had come all the way down to 6 months in prison, and just 2 days before he killed himself. I thought he died still thinking he was facing 35 years in prison... not 6 months.