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bhitov on May 15, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Disappointing Unsealing Decision in Aaron Swartz C...

Middle line and balance? If it would have become public record at trial, it should become so now. How can one argue that Aaron's death should cause less detail of the prosecution to be made available?

mhurron on May 15, 2013 [–]

Because it's no longer going to trial.

Lots of details of your life would be made public if you were brought to trial, but since you're presumably not going to trial, they aren't.

Just because something would happen if something else did happen doesn't mean that that something should happen regardless.

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