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Also, as someone pointed out on the Linus post, Aaron Swartz himself wrote about his prosecutor's behavior: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis http://www

• jacquesm 14y ago
  I read that (interesting piece, I did not know this bit of history) and could not find any references to his prosecutors behavior, could you please point out the reference for me?
  • BenoitEssiambre 14y ago
    From Aaron's Post: "Why did doctors so stubbornly reject Ignaz Semmelweis? Well, imagine being told you were responsible for the deaths of thousands of your patients. That you had been killing the people you were supposed to be protecting. That you were so bad at your job that you were actually worse than just giving birth in the street." Why can't Ortiz admit fault? If her and her department have made it common practice to do heavy handed plea bargaining and getting people to accept disproportionate punishments, like was revealed in Aaron's case then they are guilty of much more injustice than what they did to Aaron. They deny they did anything wrong in the face of evidence that says otherwise because it would make them culpable in a much wider scope. This is the core behavior described in Aaron's post. As a prosecutor, especially a government prosecutor, they shouldn't use every methods a judge lets them get away with when they are clearly unethical and lead away from justice. If this is now business as usual for the DOJ then, like the doctors who didn't wash their hands in Aaron post, they have been guilty of grave misconduct for a while now.