On: Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud

[wavegeek]

> Prosecutors don't charge people if they aren't fairly confident that the evidence will result in a conviction.

Yes they do. They throw a huge array of charges, provable or now, at people with the intent to scare them.

Punishing people for refusing to plead guilty should be a crime.

[tptacek → wavegeek]

However often that may happen in non-computer cases, it doesn't appear to have happened in this case; you can read the whole indictment in less than 4 minutes.

[rayiner → wavegeek]

Example?

[cvwright → rayiner]

Aaron Swartz?

[nl → cvwright]

All the changes there were ridiculous, but easily provable.