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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i would say jstor are cunts, but actually it's the US government that were being cunts here.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Law Enforcement and the Justice System have every responsibility to enforce laws as they were written, JSTOR pressed charges and the US Government offered Auron a plea deal to reduce his sentence to 6 months.

Definitely an argument about the inadequacy of US Healthcare to be made here, though. Auron clearly could have used some counseling.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought there was a prosecutor who pursued this beyond all reasonable bounds, making Aaron's life a living hell and driving him to suicide?

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 7 months ago

and the US government was almost definitely trying to make an example out of him: literally anybody who read the case details whatsoever.

[–] vfye@toast.ooo 12 points 7 months ago

Only prosecuting district attorneys can chose to bring a crimial charge to court.*

*except in north carolina... for some reason they actually let victims prosecute.