&gt; Carmen Ortiz as the prosecutor was the law at that moment<p>No, she was a prosecutor attempting to apply the law; rather than have his day in court, Aaron chose suicide. It is the judge and jury that are the law and Aaron never saw them.<p>&gt; so it is a circular reasoning and sophistry to say that killing Aaron Swartz was not unlawful<p>It is nothing of the sort.<p>&gt; And it was Carmen Ortiz&#x27; choice to bring Aaron into a position where he didn&#x27;t see any other escape than suicide.<p>That&#x27;s still Aaron&#x27;s fault, not hers, he could have chosen to have his day in court and she could have lost. We&#x27;ll never know because his will was too weak to even face the possibility of a trial.  Committing suicide to avoid a trial is never the prosecutors faults.