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Why You Gotta Be So…Mean?

| March 4, 2013

My guy was tak­ing a five-year prison sen­tence, and had arranged for a few weeks to get his affairs in order. The deal was that if he didn’t show up on the appointed day the judge could con­sider the full (five-to-life) range of pun­ish­ment. He showed up late. The judge gave him six years. Me: Judge, is […]

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