Weev may not be the hero Gotham City needs, but he's the one Gotham City's stuck with. That's the thing about the judicial system; you go to court with the defe

Weev may not be the hero Gotham City needs, but he's the one Gotham City's stuck with. That's the thing about the judicial system; you go to court with the defendant you have. The government may well have been counting on weev's reputation to work against him here. If your goal is to set a precedent that allows "unauthorized access" to be defined after the fact, you want a defendant people won't stand up for. It's much easier to turn bad law into bad case law when people don't fight back.