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3. ... Swartz’s lead defense attorney, Elliot Peters, said .. both he and Swartz rejected the plea deal

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:33 PM

Mar 2014

.. and instead were pushing for a trial ... Swartz pleaded not guilty Sept. 24 ... Peters and prosecutors were still engaged in a heated legal battle on Friday – the day Swartz killed himself ... The evidentiary hearing on the defense’s motion to suppress had been set for Jan. 25 ...
MIT hacking case lawyer says Aaron Swartz was offered plea deal of six months behind bars
01/14/2013 4:42 PM
By Kevin Cullen and John R. Ellement

So Swartz's attorney said the 6 month plea deal was offered and that Swartz rejected it because he wanted to go to trial

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The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz [View all] n2doc Mar 2014 OP

So as a Harvard student he had access to any JSTOR articles he needed . But for some reason, struggle4progress Mar 2014 #1

. MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #2

... Swartz’s lead defense attorney, Elliot Peters, said .. both he and Swartz rejected the plea deal struggle4progress Mar 2014 #3

... ".. I told Heymann the kid was a suicide risk,” <Andy Good, Swartz’s initial lawyer> told me ... struggle4progress Mar 2014 #4