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Better suggestion: Find out first if the 30 year sentence was actually chosen to be handed down, or had to be put in place due to the way the law is currently w
by res0nat0r 14y ago
Better suggestion: Find out first if the 30 year sentence was actually chosen to be handed down, or had to be put in place due to the way the law is currently written. If it is the latter demand the law be fixed, not the person who's job it is to enforce the law.
- AnthonyMouse 14y agoThe trouble is that it's both. The law should never have allowed a sentence that ridiculous for the act Swartz allegedly committed, but prosecutors also choose what to charge. So we do need to fix the laws to prevent excessively aggressive prosecutors from having anything that outrageous to charge minor offenders with. I would even admit that that is the more important achievement. But we still need to do something about excessively aggressive prosecutors too, because they can still do plenty of damage with knives and guns even after we take away their nuclear weapons.