This month Elliot Peters’ young client hanged himself. Another client confessed his sins to Oprah. And yet another emerged as a poster boy for the feds’ controversial medical marijuana crackdown in California. Internet activist Aaron Swartz, disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong and Matthew Davies, the operator of a licensed pot dispensary, have each been making national news headlines, often a hallmark of Peters’ cases. The Recorder sat down with the former prosecutor at his law firm, Keker & Van Nest.
Swartz, a 26-year-old computer programmer, faced federal charges for hacking computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and downloading millions of academic journal articles. As the case approached trial, Peters and his team took over.
