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- Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison.
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Swartz's attorney, Elliot Peters, stated that prosecutors at one point offered a plea deal of four months in prison and pleading guilty to 13 charges, and warned that if Swartz rejected the deal, future deals would be less attractive; [43] and that two days before Swartz's death, that "Swartz would have to spend six months in prison and plead ...
[17] [103] [104] During plea negotiations with Swartz's attorneys, the prosecutors offered to recommend a sentence of six months in a low-security prison if Swartz pled guilty to 13 federal crimes. Swartz and his lead attorney rejected the deal, opting instead for a trial where prosecutors would be forced to justify their pursuit of him.
Jan 14, 2013 · A plea deal offered by Aaron Swartz’s lawyer was rejected last week, shortly before he commited suicide. With the government’s position hardening, Mr. Swartz realized that he would have...
Was MIT involved in plea negotiations between the government and Aaron Swartz? No. While the U.S. Attorney's Office and Aaron Swartz's legal team held extensive plea discussions during 2011 and 2012, the report finds that "MIT was never involved in any plea negotiation, and was never asked — by either the prosecution or the defense — to ...
At a closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill, Department of Justice officials explained the deal they offered Internet activist Aaron Swartz: three months imprisonment if he pleaded guilty to felony...
Jan 14, 2013 · Swartz’s lead defense attorney, Elliot Peters, said today that both he and Swartz rejected the plea deal offered by the office of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, and instead were pushing for a trial...
Jan 13, 2013 · (A second report, also in the Globe, says that before Swartz's death, federal prosecutors offered him a plea deal involving a guilty plea on all 13 counts and six months of...
