Hacking defendant's suicide spurs debate over prosecutorial overreach

Political activist Aaron Swartz was charged in 2011 in Boston federal district court with the unauthorized use of a university's networks to download millions of articles from the online archive JSTOR. His suicide last Friday instantly triggered a wave of criticism aimed at prosecutors' alleged overzealousness in the pursuit of criminal charges.

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