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How did the internet go from this... You could actually find what you were looking for right away, buying... ...to this. I feel like I'm in hell. Spoiler alert, it was not an accident. I'm Cory Doctorow, host of Who Broke the Internet from CBC's Understood. In this four-part series, I'm going to tell you why the internet sucks now, whose fault it is, and my plan to fix it.
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Listen to all episodes of Fatal Beauty ad-free right now by subscribing to The Binge. Visit The Binge channel on Apple Podcasts and hit subscribe at the top of the page or visit getthebinge.com to get access wherever you listen. Feed your true crime obsession. The Binge. By now, Sandra was indicted and behind bars, but just how long she would stay there had yet to be decided.
I know this seems unbelievable, but the fact is, in the eyes of the law, Sandra at 63 was a rookie offender.
She had not been convicted of any other crimes.
He wishes to remain anonymous, but the investigator who worked at the direction of the U.S. Attorney's Office told me it's not uncommon for first-time offenders to be offered plea bargains. Sandra's back was up against the wall, though.
If she didn't accept a guilty plea, then we would have to go to trial. And if she was found guilty by a jury of her peers, she would end up probably being sentenced to more time.
Of the five charges against her, Sandra only had to plead guilty to one, aggravated identity theft. After the breathless investigation, the sting operation, the resources spent trying to bring her in, the system is built to cut deals like this for first-time nonviolent offenders, no matter how strong the case. That's how it works. Frankly, this pisses me off. Sandra was no rookie.
She hadn't accidentally committed a crime, but she'd never been caught. And for that, the system decided to treat her like some unfortunate soul who made a single bad choice. She was only considered a rookie because her first husband David Stiegel's death had been ruled a suicide. On her word and the word of the psychiatrist she arranged for her husband to see,
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