But that's exactly the coercion, laid plain. It /doesn't matter/ that the prosecutors don't believe they'll get the full sentence. They want to paint as dire a picture as possible to get the defendant to take the plea.
No, I don't think you're following what I'm saying. The prosecutors were explicit about the sentence they were actually seeking, and that sentence was itself far outside what the guidelines suggest he would have gotten. The DOJ did not in fact threaten Swartz with 35 years in prison.
