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March 7, 2013 10:16 pm GMT

Attorney General Claims Aaron Swartz Case Was A Good Use of Prosecutorial Discretion

250px-Aaron_Swartz_profileAttorney General Eric Holder claims critics are wrong to blame prosecutors for misconduct in the handling of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.Swartz committed suicide after allegedly facing 50+ years in prison for releasing millions of pay-walled academic articles. During a congressional Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, Holder claimed that the media overhyped the assumption of an overzealous prosecutor, saying that a plea deal of a few months in prison was offered and rejected by Swartz.

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