[HN Gopher] An author's obsession with freeing a man from prison
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       An author's obsession with freeing a man from prison
        
       Author : signor_bosco
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-03-26 22:12 UTC (47 minutes ago)
        
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       | giantg2 wrote:
       | Good luck to anyone dealing with something similar.
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       | 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.
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       | Until the system becomes accountable to the people, it will
       | continue to act as an oligarchy and crush us peons.
        
         | sjg007 wrote:
         | I assume you got a good lawyer?
        
           | sthnblllII wrote:
           | Exactly his mistake. He probably got a good lawyer instead of
           | a _' good'_ lawyer.
        
       | chmod775 wrote:
       | How do you sell tens of millions of books and become broke not
       | even twenty years later?
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       | Suppose her publisher was absolutely and utterly ripping her off,
       | only paying her $1 per book, that's still burning through about a
       | million USD per year.
       | 
       | Somewhere buried there lies the real crime.
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       | With which I mean to say either her publisher ripped her off
       | beyond belief, or she's really bad with money.
        
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