[marlinspire]

He was threatened with 30 years so he took a plea-deal.

It is a shame he was denied a trial.

May or may not have been guilty - taking a plea under such extreme duress is hardly an admission of guilt.

[higherpurpose]

Yet people here keep defending these ridiculous charges because they "don't matter", and "aren't real anyway". Yeah, tell that to the person that had to hear that charge and then got scared shitless into accepting "only 2 years" of prison time.

[spacemanmatt]

I haven't seen that. Prosecutorial abuse is better understood around HN than most of society, that I've seen. YMMV.

[Zigurd]

Hey! He wasn't driven to suicide so it's a success story.