An author's obsession with freeing a man from prison
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An author's obsession with freeing a man from prison
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Re: An author's obsession with freeing a man from prison
#2Good luck to anyone dealing with something similar.
My wife had a charge held against her even though the trooper knew he lacked probable cause. The state police say that's fine and the trooper is allowed to do that. The DA and the courts don't care.
Until the system becomes accountable to the people, it will continue to act as an oligarchy and crush us peons.
Re: An author's obsession with freeing a man from prison
#3Good luck to anyone dealing with something similar. My wife had a charge held against her even though the trooper knew he lacked probable cause. The state police say that's fine and the trooper is allowed to do that. The DA and the courts don't care. Until the system becomes accountable to the people, it will continue to act as an oligarchy and crush us peons.
I assume you got a good lawyer?
Re: An author's obsession with freeing a man from prison
#4Good luck to anyone dealing with something similar. My wife had a charge held against her even though the trooper knew he lacked probable cause. The state police say that's fine and the trooper is allowed to do that. The DA and the courts don't care. Until the system becomes accountable to the people, it will continue to act as an oligarchy and crush us peons.
I assume you got a good lawyer?
Exactly his mistake. He probably got a good lawyer instead of a 'good' lawyer.
Re: An author's obsession with freeing a man from prison
#5How do you sell tens of millions of books and become broke not even twenty years later?
Suppose her publisher was absolutely and utterly ripping her off, only paying $1 per book, that's still burning through about a million USD per year.
Somewhere buried there lies the real crime. With which I mean to say either her publisher ripped her off beyond belief, or she's really bad with money.
Re: An author's obsession with freeing a man from prison
#6How do you sell tens of millions of books and become broke not even twenty years later? Suppose her publisher was absolutely and utterly ripping her off, only paying $1 per book, that's still burning through about a million USD per year. Somewhere buried there lies the real crime. With which I mean to say either her publisher ripped her off beyond belief, or she's really bad with money.
I think you overestimate both how much most authors earn as well as how easy it is to blow through $20m.
It's likely also "cash broke" rather than actually bankrupt; it sounds like she still has her house (albeit borrowed against) and other assets.
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#10Wow that was fascinating. I admire her dedication.
I hope this brings attention to Murdoch.