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Never Forget (mander.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 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?

[+] [email protected] -19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Well if a Psychologist had helped him through it maybe he could have turned around and sued that prosecutor into disbarment.

EDIT: People are downvoting this, but TBH I wouldn't kill myself over a 35 year sentence much less the 6 months in the plea deal this guy got. Wouldn't consider it for a single moment. He had agency in his own actions.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yeah and maybe that prosecutor is tangentially responsible for his suicide now.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.