  At the time of his suicide, Aaron Swartz was preparing for a
crucial hearing in his federal criminal case, likely his best
chance to thwart federal prosecutors who had developed solid
evidence against the Internet activist who was facing an April
trial on a 13-count felony indictment.  The 26-year-old Swartz,
who killed himself Friday in his Brooklyn apartment, was
scheduled for a January 25 evidentiary hearing in U.S. District
Court in Boston, Massachusetts. Lawyers for Swartz were seeking
to suppress material gathered in connection with Swartz’s breach
of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer network.
The January 2011 incursion netted Swartz, a Reddit cofounder who
also helped develop the RSS standard, millions of scholarly
papers from the JSTOR archive. He was planning to make the
material public at no cost.  Swartz, pictured in the above
United States Marshals Service mug shot (click to enlarge), was
caught red-handed by local cops and Secret Service Agent Michael
Pickett. After investigator