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Crime of Conspiracy
The recent case whereby criminal charges were imposed in Aaron Swartz caused frenzy throughout the country. In my perspective, a criminal penalty was essential for this case. Swartz had announced he would be committed to opposing the law as a moral impervious to invalidate the federal laws in existence for information access effectively. In this case, one decided to disobey the law intentionally, just because he wanted to achieve a goal in an anti-democratic policy way and there is a display by both deeds and words that he will precede. It is very deliberate for the criminal law with its power to enforce a penalty under the law that the individual violated intentionally. In actual sense, the law is the fact about civil disobedience: the main function of the punishment is to focus on the same law deemed unjust. As was in this case, I think the punishment was deliberate (Samaha, 2011).
A close assessment at the case shows that...
However, this approach is very mistaken. When the police arrest a person in the course of committing a criminal offence, hey mediate the punishment must be based on real acts in the course and not what the person had achieved before being caught. The question seeks to identify Swartz plan. In my point-of-view, Swartz was an unusual and remarkable person with focus. I also think that there is a considerable reason to have the perception that there was a certain plan in mind. He was a very serious legal nerd despite the fact that he did not go to a law school. Most of his fellows were lawyers. In many cases, he was actively involved in debates of legal topics. At the age of 15-year, he attended the Supreme Court argument as a personal guest to Larry Lessig. On a recent case, he was part of the debate over SOPA. He had an interest and an in-depth…
References
Samaha, J. (2011). Criminal Law (10th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Gillies, P. (2009). The law of criminal conspiracy. Sydney: Federation Press
Rowlett, C. (2005). Labyrinth 13: True tales of the occult, crime, & conspiracy. United States:
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