[governance] US court drops charges against Aaron Swartz

[James S. Tyre]

Please don’t read too much into the dismissal, it’s nothing more than a procedural formality.

 

Some (not all) civil lawsuits can continue against the estate of someone who had died.  But criminal prosecutions are purely personal to the individual defendant, they cannot be continued against the estate.  If the prosecutors hadn’t dismissed, Aaron’s lawyers would have gotten it done, or the court would have done it on its own.

 

This does not in any way signify that the prosecutors had any change of heart, it’s just a required formality.

 

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Dismissal as signed by Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Haymann

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From: Nnenna <nne75 at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [governance] US court drops charges against Aaron Swartz

 

 


US court drops charges on Aaron Swartz days after his suicide — RT


 http://rt.com/usa/news/swartz-suicide-court-drops-charges-997/ 


 



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