<story><title>Prosecutor as bully</title><url>http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbateman</author><text>From the link in the article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Depending on how many of the counts Swartz is found guilty of, the sentence could conceivably total 50+ years and fine in the area of $4 million.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What an absurd and unreasonable level of punishment.  Carmen Ortiz, the prosecutor who was behind this[1] needs to be publicly shamed.&lt;p&gt;[1] (source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-c...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>She has been rumored as a candidate for Governor or Senator, but denies interest (such denials often mean nothing).&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/01/carmen_ortiz_rules_out_gov_senate_run&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/01/...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Boston Globe named her &quot;Bostonian Of The Year&quot; in 2011.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/12/30/bostonian_of_the_year_carmen_ortiz_2011/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like most things, it seems complicated.  She&apos;s done a lot of  good for society, but it looks like she really screwed up in this particular case.</text></comment>
<story><title>Prosecutor as bully</title><url>http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbateman</author><text>From the link in the article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Depending on how many of the counts Swartz is found guilty of, the sentence could conceivably total 50+ years and fine in the area of $4 million.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What an absurd and unreasonable level of punishment.  Carmen Ortiz, the prosecutor who was behind this[1] needs to be publicly shamed.&lt;p&gt;[1] (source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-c...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agwa</author><text>This is business as usual.  Naming the prosecutor isn&apos;t going to accomplish anything - the whole system needs fixing.&lt;p&gt;Just a week ago this was on HN: &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5003335&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5003335&lt;/a&gt;
I don&apos;t think they seized Swartz&apos; assets in this case but they didn&apos;t need to - they made his defense as expensive as possible and bled him dry.</text></comment>